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Wormwood (Artemisia absinthum)

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the realm of the green fairy! Thujone is the troublemaker in this excellent plants make up-all you need to do is make sure its processed out before making your absinthe.

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Well, not processed completely out... :D

 

As Pertinax said, a-Thujone can be somewhat of a trouble maker, primarily in high doses.

 

A-Thujone is a neurotransmitter that "temporarily antagonizes the GABA system of the body." Now, the GABA system is how your body controls stimulus headed for the brain. So, the reason for Absinthe

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Its amazing that the losers(drugdealers) still haven't tried to make this plants abilities into an addictive street drug yet.

Have a look at my blog entry on Wormwood ,youll see a bit more detail. Pantagathus has correctly cited that this is a "deleriant" rather than an intoxicant.

Some Thujone would be fine if you had no history of personality disorder-actually I prefer the medieval "melancholia" its actually more apt than many modern descriptions.

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Some Thujone would be fine if you had no history of personality disorder-actually I prefer the medieval "melancholia" its actually more apt than many modern descriptions.

 

That's kind of the chicken & egg in respects to Vincent van Gogh and his mental disorder. He loved to drink absinthe but can that be blaimed as the main cause of his dementia? I do believe he drank turpentine & ate oil paints long before he was fond of the Green Fairy...

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Some Thujone would be fine if you had no history of personality disorder-actually I prefer the medieval "melancholia" its actually more apt than many modern descriptions.

 

That's kind of the chicken & egg in respects to Vincent van Gogh and his mental disorder. He loved to drink absinthe but can that be blaimed as the main cause of his dementia? I do believe he drank turpentine & ate oil paints long before he was fond of the Green Fairy...

I once wrote a paper on Ether abuse in rural Ireland, but turps Ive never come across, I can understand it in the context of an intoxicant inhalant-however as abuse of wintergreen ( as an additive to cheap distillates with a nasty methyl alcohol content) was commonplace in certain parts of New York society in the mid 19th C I can well believe it could be misused.Tolulene poisoning would damage most organs after heavy use.

Eating oil paints-I hope he left the Prussian Blue alone-that could have been the key to his "derangement".

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