Fresh Worm Wood Oil

Specifications

Origin Of wormwood  

This perennial herb grows up to 1.5 meters (5 feet) and has a whitish stem, silvery-green, divided leaves, covered with silky, fine hairs, and pale yellow flowers.

It was used as an aromatic-bitter for anorexia, as a digestive tonic, to promote menstruation and to reduce fever and expel worms.

Wormwood was used in the liqueur absinthe. Prolonged consumption of this drink became known as 'absinthism'.

The symptoms of absinthism included auditory and visual hallucinations, hyper excitability, intellectual enfeeblement, addiction and in extreme cases brain damage.

It is widely believed that it was absinthe that drove the painter Vincent van Gogh to suicide.

Extraction

Worm wood Oil is extracted from the leaves & flowering tops by steam distillation.

Wormwood oil is extracted from Artemisia absinthium of the Asteraceae (Compositae) family and is also known as green ginger, armoise, common wormwood and absinthium.

The health benefits of wormwood essential oil can be attributed to its properties like anti helmitic, cholagogue, deodorant, digestive, emenagogue, febrifuge, insecticide, narcotic, vermifuge and tonic.

Oil Properties

Wormwood oil is a toxin, neurotoxin and an abortifacient