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Other name: Green ginger
Flower color: Yellow
Flowering: July - September
Height: 30 - 100 cm
Active ingredients: Essential oils (containing thujon), Bitter substances, Flavonoids
Used parts: Herba absinthii, the flowering plant.
Absinthe is used for a very long time. Hippocrates (~400 BC) already mentioned the plant and used it against brain disorders. The ancient Greeks also made an extract of Absinthe in wine, because that would limit the intoxicating effect. Also the Roman people would have used it, since Plinius would have mentioned something like that. Even after that there was made a liqueur of the plant, known as Absinthe. Though if you would drink too much of that, it would work as a slow poison. Because of that, it became forbidden in countries like the US and France.
Absinthe wormwood was in the middle ages used by travelers. They took it with them to prevent fatigue. It was also used against lice, flea and other insects. People also used the plant with vinegar as antidote for mushroom poison and they used it with wine as an antidote for 'Chaerophyllum temulum' and the bite of shrews.
Nowadays Absinthe is used to stimulate the appetite, to stimulate the digestion, to stimulate the liver, to stimulate the production of gall and to stimulate the stomach.
If you use Artemisia Absinthium in too high doses, it can be toxic. Possible indications are head-ache and dizziness.
If you use even higher doses, Absinthe can have fatal effects. For more details, see the Poisonous plants page.
This plant should NOT be used by pregnant women, because it can have an abortive effect.
Abinthe should NOT be given to children.
If you have heavy stomach, gut or liver problems, you should NOT use this plant, unless otherwise agreed with a qualified doctor.