Artimesia absinthium
Common Name: Wormwood herb
Comment: Used for all upper digestive deficiencies; Traditionally, as a cancer remedy; Also for fever, skin disease, arthritis, and parasites.
Note: considered the most bitter plant in the world.
Tincture: 1:4 @ 25%. 1362 h2o, 454 alc, 454 gm.
Purposes: (See also Disease: Signs & Symptoms)
| worms | Nematode infestation. Ascaris. |
Used In: (See Formulas)
Properties:
Anthelmentic
Anti-Malignancy
Emmenagogue
Tonic
Contraindication(s): Pregnancy.
Clinical: 10 ml per 100 ml tincture.
Clinicals:
CANCER
Constituents:
| Bitter sesquiterpene | s. Including caryophyllene, cadinene. |
| Essential oil | Up to 1%. Including thujone, thujol, isovaleric acid. |
| Flavonoid glycoside | s. A great number. |
| Hydroxycoumarin | s. Including herniarin, scopoletin, scoparone. |
| Saponin, triterpenoid | Farnesol. |
| Sesquiterpene bitter | s. Lactones--oxidised and hence non-volatile. Including germacranolides (costunolide, ridentin, novanin, balchanolide), guaianolides (azulenes--artabsin, absinthin, anabsinthin, arborescin, globicin), santanolides (including santonin, artemisin). |
| Terpenoid | s. Including artemisia ketone, and santolinyl and lavedulyl skeletons. |
| Volatile oil | Camphor: a monoterpene. |
Materia Medica: (See Materia Medica.)
| Anthelmentics | DIGESTIVE SYSTEM |
| Emmenagogues | FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE |