Wormwood (Artemisia absinthum)

So is it a hallucinogen?

Well, not processed completely out...

 

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

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

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.

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...

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".

Sigh, I wish I had a blog and gallery now.