Artemisia absinthium - Revision history

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	[[Category:Rhapsodica]]		[[Category:Rhapsodica]]
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	[[Category:Medicines]]		[[Category:Medicines]]

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	\| routes = Oral		\| routes = Oral
	\| mechanism = Active principle is thujone, a GABA-A antagonist (the opposite of most CNS depressants). Also present in cooking sage (''Salvia officinalis''), tansy, and ''Thuja'' cedars.		\| mechanism = Active principle is thujone, a GABA-A antagonist (the opposite of most CNS depressants). Also present in cooking sage (''Salvia officinalis''), tansy, and ''Thuja'' cedars.
	\| intro = Wormwood is the bitter herb of [[Pendell]]'s Rhapsodica — "where seeds of song are sown." Its thujone produces a clarifying agitation distinct from alcohol's depressant fog, which is why absinthe was the drink of Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Van Gogh, and the Paris bohemians. Banned in most of Europe and the US through the 20th century on dubious science; legal again in the EU and US since the 2000s.		\| intro = Wormwood is the bitter herb of [[Pendell]]'s Rhapsodica, "where seeds of song are sown." Its thujone produces a clarifying agitation distinct from alcohol's depressant fog, which is why absinthe was the drink of Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Van Gogh, and the Paris bohemians. Banned in most of Europe and the US through the 20th century on dubious science; legal again in the EU and US since the 2000s.
	\| legal = Currently legal in most jurisdictions with thujone limits		\| legal = Currently legal in most jurisdictions with thujone limits
	\| seealso = [[Calea zacatechichi]]		\| seealso = [[Calea zacatechichi]]

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	{{PendellsCorner		{{PendellsCorner
	\| quote = ~~Bitter star~~, ~~the green hour~~, the ~~spoon and the slotted glass — absinthe was the brewer's variation on a plant the herbalists had been brewing for two thousand years before the bohemians made it the muse of Paris~~. ~~Wormwood is not the thujone alone; she is the bitterness that the bitterness was for~~.		\| quote = Absinthe can excite sexuality, stimulate ideas and conversation, or dissolve the brain. Difficult choices, indeed.
	\| volume = Poeia		\| volume = Poeia
	~~\| voice = curated paraphrase — replace with verbatim passage~~
	}}		}}

Maintenance script: Add Pendell's corner (Poeia)

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	\| seealso = [[Calea zacatechichi]]		\| seealso = [[Calea zacatechichi]]
	\| references = <references/>		\| references = <references/>
			}}

			{{PendellsCorner
			\| quote = Bitter star, the green hour, the spoon and the slotted glass — absinthe was the brewer's variation on a plant the herbalists had been brewing for two thousand years before the bohemians made it the muse of Paris. Wormwood is not the thujone alone; she is the bitterness that the bitterness was for.
			\| volume = Poeia
			\| voice = curated paraphrase — replace with verbatim passage
	}}		}}

MDElliottMD: Create skeletal Plant Medicines page from Pendell

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Create skeletal Plant Medicines page from Pendell

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{{MedTemplate
| generic = Artemisia absinthium
| brand = Wormwood, absinthe, la Fée Verte, the Green Muse
| classes = Plant Medicine, Rhapsodica
| uses = <vote slug="creative-stimulant-use">Creative stimulant (in absinthe)</vote>, <vote slug="vermifuge-use">Vermifuge</vote>
| starting_dose = A measured pour of absinthe diluted 5:1 with cold water over sugar (the louche ritual)
| preparations = Dried leaves; absinthe liqueur (120–160 proof, with hyssop, lemon balm, fennel, anise, sometimes Acorus calamus)
| routes = Oral
| mechanism = Active principle is thujone, a GABA-A antagonist (the opposite of most CNS depressants). Also present in cooking sage (''Salvia officinalis''), tansy, and ''Thuja'' cedars.
| intro = Wormwood is the bitter herb of [[Pendell]]'s Rhapsodica — "where seeds of song are sown." Its thujone produces a clarifying agitation distinct from alcohol's depressant fog, which is why absinthe was the drink of Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Van Gogh, and the Paris bohemians. Banned in most of Europe and the US through the 20th century on dubious science; legal again in the EU and US since the 2000s.
| legal = Currently legal in most jurisdictions with thujone limits
| seealso = [[Calea zacatechichi]]
| references = <references/>
}}

[[Category:Rhapsodica]]
[[Category:Plant Medicines]]
[[Category:Medicines]]