Artemisia absinthium: Difference between revisions
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| 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 | | 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]] | ||