Wormwood is used for various digestion problems such as loss of appetite, upset stomach, gall bladder disease, and intestinal spasms. Wormwood is also used to treat fever, liver disease, and worm infections; to increase sexual desire; as a tonic and to stimulate sweating. Some people apply wormwood directly to the skin for healing wounds and insect bites. Wormwood is used in some alcoholic beverages. Vermouth, for example, is a wine beverage flavored with extracts of wormwood. Absinthe is another well-known alcoholic beverage made with wormwood. It is an emerald-green alcohol drink that is prepared from wormwood oil, often along with other dried herbs such as anise and fennel. Famous artists and writers popularized Absinthe, such as Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Manet, van Gogh, Picasso, Hemingway, and Oscar Wilde. It is now banned in many countries, including the U.S. But it is still allowed in European Union countries as long as the thujone content is less than 35 mg/kg. Thujone is a potentially poisonous chemical found in wormwood. Distilling wormwood in alcohol increases the thujone concentration.
Wormwood (Artemisia vulgaris)
$12.00 – $19.00
Maggie –
Why are you listing artemis vulgaris are wormwood and not mugwort? Which is it? they are not the same.
aseto –
It is European Artemis Vulgaris. We believe it is wormwood