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Wormwood (wormwood-absinthe). Legends, myths, symbolism, description, cultivation, methods of application
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Wormwood (wormwood absinthe), Artemisia absinthium. Photos of the plant, basic scientific information, legends, myths, symbolism
Basic scientific information, legends, myths, symbolism Sort by: Artemisia Family: Asteraceae (Asteraceae) Origin: Europe and Asia Area: Wormwood grows in Eastern Europe, in the south of Siberia, in the Caucasus, as well as in North America and Western Asia. Chemical composition: The main active substances of the plant are thuyan, artemisinin, flavonoids, bitter and aromatic substances. Economic value: Wormwood has medicinal properties and is used as a choleretic, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antiseptic and tonic. Also used in the production of alcoholic beverages, including absinthe. However, the use of absinthe can cause poisoning, so its production and distribution are regulated by law. Legends, myths, symbolism: In ancient Roman mythology, the plant was dedicated to the god of war Mars, and in the Middle Ages it was considered a talisman and protection from evil spirits and diseases. In some cultures, wormwood symbolizes bitterness and pain, as well as life's wisdom and perseverance in achieving a goal. However, the association of wormwood with the drink absinthe, which gained popularity in Europe in the XNUMXth century, is most famous. At this time, numerous legends and myths appeared about how absinthe causes hallucinations and even insanity. Some artists and writers, such as Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Rimbaud, consumed the drink and described it in their works. The symbols of absinthe were the images of the green fairy, which is the personification of hallucinations, and the green elf, which was considered a symbol of art and creativity.
Wormwood (wormwood absinthe), Artemisia absinthium. Description, illustrations of the plant Wormwood (wormwood absinthe), Artemisia absinthium. Description of the plant, area, cultivation, application
Abundant thickets of wormwood forms everywhere along roads, near fences, in wastelands, uncultivated fields, and clearings. Perennial herbaceous plant up to 1 m high. Stems flower-bearing, erect, slightly ribbed, branched at the top, woody at the base. The rhizome is short, branched and ends in a taproot. The leaves are alternate, the lower ones are long-petiolate, triangular-heart-shaped, the middle ones are sessile, on shorter petioles, the upper ones are lanceolate, sessile. The stems and leaves are greyish-silver in color from many short, appressed hairs. Blooms in July - August. The flowers are small, yellowish, collected in spherical baskets, forming a paniculate inflorescence. The fruit is a brownish achene up to 1 mm long. Ripens in August-September. Up to 100 seeds ripen from one plant during the summer. Drought and frost resistant. Wormwood grass contains bitter glycosides, essential oil, vitamins C, K, B6, organic acids, protein, tannins, resinous substances, carotene, flavones, starch, mineral salts, phytoncides. Sesquiterpenes give the plant its bitter taste. For economic purposes, pale yellow, lemon, dark green, dark blue dyes are obtained from the plant. Currant bushes, gooseberries, apple trees are treated with a decoction of bitter wormwood from pests (3 kg of grass or 1 kg of dried infuse in 10 liters of water for 1-2 days, boil for 15 minutes, dilute with 10 liters of water). In nutrition, wormwood powder is used as a seasoning for salads, meat, fish sauces. The essential oil is used in the distillery industry for flavoring vermouth, liquor, vodka. It should be remembered that with prolonged use of drinks with wormwood, vomiting, nervous breakdown (wormwood epilepsy), intestinal atony appear. Wormwood powder. Dry the grass or leaves in the air, grind in a coffee grinder or mortar, sift. Store in a well-closed container. Use for flavoring salads, second courses, gravy, seasonings, sauces. Salad with wormwood. Grate boiled beets on a coarse grater, add pieces of pickled cucumber, potatoes, chopped herring, grated horseradish, wormwood powder, chopped hard-boiled egg. Season with mayonnaise or sour cream sauce. Sprinkle with dill, parsley and green onions. 150 g beets, 100 g herring, 100 g pickled cucumbers, 60 g potatoes, 25 g horseradish, 1 egg, wormwood powder at the tip of a knife, 200 g mayonnaise (or sour cream sauce), dill, parsley and green onion. Bean salad with wormwood. Boil bean pods in salted water until soft, chop, add chopped ham or sausage, grated cheese, wormwood powder, chopped hard-boiled egg, onion, tomatoes, salt. Season with mayonnaise or spicy sour cream sauce. Sprinkle with dill, parsley and green onions. 500 g of beans, 50 g of cheese, 200 g of ham or sausage, 50 g of onions, 100 g of tomatoes, 200 g of mayonnaise (or sour cream sauce), 1 egg, 2 g of wormwood powder, dill and parsley. Vinaigrette with wormwood. Cut boiled beets, carrots, potatoes into cubes, add chopped pickled cucumbers, onions, wormwood powder, pieces of boiled meat, salt. Season with mayonnaise, or vegetable oil, or sour cream sauce. Sprinkle with dill, parsley and green onions. 150 g of beets, 80 g of potatoes, 50 g of carrots, 100 g of pickled cucumbers, 25 g of onions, 2 g of wormwood powder, 150 g of meat, 200 g of mayonnaise (or vegetable oil, or sour cream sauce), salt, dill and parsley. Meat fried with wormwood. Cut off the pieces of meat and fry in hot oil. 2 minutes before cooking, sprinkle the meat with wormwood powder and spices. 400 g of meat, 50 g of vegetable oil, wormwood powder on the tip of a knife, spices, salt to taste. Cutlets with wormwood. Mix minced meat with white bread soaked in milk, pass through a meat grinder, add chopped garlic, salt, wormwood powder, mix thoroughly. Form cutlets from the mass, bread them in breadcrumbs and fry in a frying pan heated with oil. 400 g minced meat, 70 g white bread, 2 cloves of garlic, 50 g breadcrumbs, 50 g vegetable oil, 2 g wormwood powder, salt. Vegetables stewed with wormwood. Put the beets and carrots, grated on a coarse grater, in a roaster with heated vegetable oil and simmer until half cooked. Then add chopped cabbage, potatoes, onions, dill seeds, cumin, bay leaf, wormwood powder. Simmer until tender over low heat. 100 g of beets and carrots, 80 g of cabbage and potatoes, 50 g of vegetable oil, 50 g of onion, 2-3 g of wormwood powder, spices, salt to taste.
In folk medicine, wormwood is used. It stimulates appetite, improves digestion, has an analgesic, sedative, mild hypnotic, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, choleretic, diuretic, wound healing, laxative, antihelminthic effect, regulates blood pressure (in small doses it increases, in large it decreases). To take preparations from wormwood should be under the supervision of a doctor, in compliance with the terms of treatment and the rules of admission. Infusion of wormwood herb. Infuse 5 g of herbs in 200 ml of boiling water for 20 minutes, strain. Drink 1 tablespoon 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals for gastritis, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, insomnia, liver disease, kidney disease, anemia. Do enemas for worms. Wash wounds, ulcers. Store the infusion in a cold place for 2-3 days. Treatment is carried out for 2-3 weeks. Repeated course of treatment in 1-2 months. A decoction of the leaves of wormwood and sage. Mix wormwood and sage leaves in equal amounts. Boil 20 g of the mixture in 400 ml of water for 30 minutes, strain. Take 1 tablespoon every 2-3 hours for colitis. A decoction of wormwood with thyme herb. Mix wormwood herb with thyme herb (1:4). Boil 15 g of the mixture over low heat in 300 ml of water for 20 minutes, leave for 30 minutes, then strain. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day before meals for 2-3 months (under medical supervision!). Juice from fresh herb wormwood to wash long non-healing, festering wounds, ulcers, fistulas. Wormwood herb powder, 0,2-0,5 g, taken 3 times a day before meals for liver diseases. Wormwood ointment. Mix 10 g of condensed wormwood extract with 100 g of vegetable oil or lard. Lubricate wounds, ulcers, frostbite, burns, fistulas. Wormwood oil. Grind 5 g of wormwood seeds, mix with 20 g of Provence oil, leave for 8 hours. Use 1-2 drops on sugar, bread for pain, cramps. Wormwood herb is a part of appetizing, choleretic preparations. Contraindications: pregnancy, hypersensitivity to the plant. Wormwood is prepared in two steps. Basal leaves are plucked without petioles before flowering, at the stage of budding. The tops of flowering stems are harvested at the beginning of flowering. Cut them up to 25 cm long with scissors, knives, a sickle. With a later collection, the yellow color disappears from the flowers, they become brown, the leaves become covered with brown spots. This herb is not suitable for consumption. Dry the grass in the shade in a draft, under a canopy, in attics, in dryers, ovens at a temperature of 30-40 ° C. Dried stems and leaves are silvery-gray in color, characteristic fragrant smell, very bitter taste, break with a crunch. The shelf life of dried herbs is 2 years. Authors: Alekseychik N.I., Vasanko V.A.
Wormwood, Artemisia absinthium L. Botanical description of the plant, areas of growth and ecology, economic importance, applications
Aster family - Asteraceae. Perennial herbaceous plant 50-125 cm high with a strong specific smell. The rhizome is short. Leaves and stems are greyish-silvery, densely covered with short hairs. Stems are straight, slightly ribbed, branched in the upper part. Leaves of vegetative shoots are long-petiolate, thrice pinnately dissected; middle stem leaves are short-petiolate, twice pinnately dissected; upper - three-notched or whole slices; segments of all leaves are linear-oblong, bluntly pointed. Flowers tubular, small. Inflorescences are spherical drooping baskets, collected on short branches with one-sided brushes that make up a pyramidal panicle. The fruit is a brownish oblong pointed achene without a tuft. Blooms in June - August. The fruits ripen in August - September. It grows on young fallows, near dwellings, in vegetable gardens, field boundaries and pastures with fairly loose soils. It is widely cultivated in Southern Europe, Russia, North Africa and the USA, where the oil is produced. The aerial part of wormwood during flowering, the leaves before flowering, contain sesquiterpene lactones, abeintin, anabsintin, giving the plant a bitter taste, ascorbic acid, tannins, a lot of potassium salts, flavonoid artemisetin, essential oil (0,2-0,5% ), carotene, organic acids (malic, succinic). Oil is a thick liquid of blue or dark green color with a sharp bitter taste. The composition of the essential oil obtained from plants by steam distillation includes thuyl alcohol, thujone, pinene, cadinene, phellandrene, beta-caryophyllene, gamma-selinene, beta-biabolene, curcumene and chamazulenogen. Absinthine, anabsinthine, orthabsin, prochamazulenogen, ketolactones A and B, oxylactone and artemisetin were also found in the aerial part of wormwood. The leaves, and sometimes the entire aerial part, are used by the population as a seasoning for fried and fatty meat dishes. The aerial part of wormwood is used in the distillery for the preparation of chartreuse and pepper vodka, and the essential oil is used for the production of vermouth and absinthe. Prolonged use of wormwood tinctures and vodkas can lead to so-called wormwood epilepsy due to the presence of thujone lactone. Therefore, in Western Europe, the production of absinthe is currently prohibited.
In medicine in many countries of the world, the plant is used as a means of improving digestion and stimulating appetite. Absinthine stimulates the function of the glands of the digestive tract, increases the secretion of bile, pancreatic and gastric juice. Wormwood preparations are used for dyspepsia, hypoacid gastritis, diseases of the liver, gallbladder, insomnia, malaria, influenza, catarrh of the upper respiratory tract. Chamazulene, derived from the aerial part of wormwood, is used in the treatment of bronchial asthma, rheumatism, eczema, and x-ray burns. The effect of essential oil on the central nervous system is similar to that of camphor. Chamazulene activates the reticuloendothelial system and phagocytic functions, which leads to the anti-inflammatory and laxative effect of the plant. Wormwood is part of the choleretic, appetizing and gastric collections that reduce flatulence. It is included in the pharmacopoeias of more than 20 countries of the world. Wormwood is used in homeopathy. They are widely and variedly used in domestic and foreign folk medicine: inside - as an appetizing bitterness, antihelminthic, astringent, for gastritis, gastric ulcer, dysentery, rheumatism, anemia, jaundice, obesity, flatulence, migraine, hypertension, pulmonary tuberculosis, edema, ulcerative colitis, hemorrhoids, bad breath, ozen (chronic rhinitis), epilepsy, leucorrhea, as an expectorant and antispasmodic, neurasthenia, heartburn, cholera and for the treatment of alcoholism; externally - as a hemostatic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic and wound healing, for lotions and compresses for bruises, purulent wounds and ulcers, allergies. The use of wormwood is contraindicated during pregnancy. Due to its toxicity, caution should be exercised when administered internally. Excessive use of wormwood preparations can cause convulsions, convulsions, hallucinations. Willingly eaten by cows and sheep. In small doses, it increases appetite and improves digestion, in significant quantities it gives milk and butter from it an unpleasant odor and taste. The above-ground part can be dyed fabrics in various tones of green. The plant has phytoncidal properties. Wormwood is an insecticide. A decoction of it is proposed as a remedy against leaf-eating caterpillars. The smell of the plant repels clothes moths, ants, fleas, cockroaches. Beekeepers use this property to combat bee theft and contagious disease of bees - nosematosis.
Artemisia absinthium L. Artemisia absinthium L. Botanical description, area and habitats, chemical composition, use in medicine and industry
Perennial herbaceous plant up to 1 m in height, silvery-gray in color, family Compositae (Compisitae). The basal leaves are thrice-pinnate, the stem leaves are double-pinnate, the upper leaves are pinnate. The flowers are small yellow in spherical baskets up to 2,5-3,5 mm in diameter, forming a narrow paniculate inflorescence. The fruit is a brownish achene up to 1 mm in length. Blooms in July-August. Range and habitats. The plant is common in Eastern Europe, Western Siberia, Kazakhstan, Tien Shan and partly in Central Asia. It grows like a weed along roads, in pastures, less often in crops. Chemical composition. The aerial part of wormwood during flowering, leaves - before flowering, contain sesquiterpene lactones, bitter glycosides (absinthine, anabsinthine, artabsin and others), which give the plant a peculiar bitter taste, saponins, flavonoids, phytoncides, ascorbic acid, resinous and tannins, potassium salts, artemisetin, essential oil (0,2-0,5%), carotene, organic acids (malic, succinic). Essential oil is a thick liquid of blue or dark green color with a sharp bitter taste. The composition of the essential oil obtained from plants by steam distillation includes thuyl alcohol (up to 10-25%), thujone (up to 10%), pinene, cadinene, phellandrene, beta-caryophyllene, gamma-selinene, beta-bisabolene, curcumene and chamazulenogen. Absinthine, anabsinthine, orthabsin, prochamazulenogen, ketolactones A and B, oxylactone and artemisetin were also found in the aerial part of wormwood. The plant contains a significant amount of protein, and at the same time quite a lot of fiber.
Application in medicine. By irritating the endings of the taste nerves in the oral cavity, the active substances of wormwood reflexively enhance the secretory function of the gastrointestinal tract. The main importance is attached to absinthine. Absinthine, a bitter-tasting glycoside, stimulates the function of jelly, the digestive tract, enhances the secretion of bile, pancreatic and gastric juice. Wormwood preparations are used for dyspepsia, hypoacid gastritis, with a decrease in the function of the gastrointestinal tract, with diseases of the liver, gallbladder, insomnia, malaria, influenza, catarrh of the upper respiratory tract. Wormwood is widely and variedly used in domestic and foreign folk medicine: inside - as an appetizing bitterness, antihelminthic astringent, for gastritis, gastric ulcer, dysentery, rheumatism, anemia, jaundice, obesity, flatulence, migraine, hypertension, pulmonary tuberculosis, with edema, ulcerative colitis, hemorrhoids, bad breath, lake, epilepsy, with whites as an expectorant and antispasmodic, with neurasthenia, heartburn, with cholera and for the treatment of alcoholism; externally - as a hemostatic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic and wound healing, for lotions and compresses for bruises, purulent wounds and ulcers, allergies (wormwood has an analgesic effect for bruises, sprains, dislocations, spasm and inflammation of the colon). Ingestion of a decoction of bitter wormwood with honey treats paralysis, weakness of organs, epilepsy. Other uses. Wormwood extract is used to make absinthe (distillate of alcoholic tincture from wormwood and other herbs). It is this ingredient that gives absinthe a specific, unique taste. Wormwood is one of the main components in vermouth, as well as in some alcohol tinctures. Wormwood is sometimes used in cooking as a seasoning, including fatty dishes. Authors: Turova A.D., Sapozhnikova E.N.
Sagebrush. The history of growing a plant, economic importance, cultivation, use in cooking
What kind of plant is wormwood. Wormwood is a genus of herbaceous or semi-shrub plants of the Compositae (aster) family. Wormwood, A. absinthium, is considered the most bitter plant in the Russian flora. It owes this property to bitter glycosides, including absinthine, anabsinthine and artabsin. Wormwood leaves also contain organic acids (malic and succinic), resinous and tannins, flavonoids and phytoncides, vitamins and odorous essential oil. Aromatic bitter leaves are used as a seasoning for fried meat, especially fatty. In the Middle Ages, they were added to mead, and in England, wormwood occasionally replaced hops in brewers. Due to bitterness, wormwood leaves and flowers are used in medicine, both official and folk, so A. absinthium has another name - wormwood. Bitter infusions, alcoholic tinctures and extracts from wormwood excite the appetite and stimulate the digestive glands, therefore they are useful for many diseases that are accompanied by indigestion. Wormwood also contains the bicyclic hydrocarbon chamazulene (1,4-dimethyl-7-ethylazulene), which has antibacterial properties, so the plant is used as an anti-inflammatory agent, including in the treatment of burns. The aroma of wormwood repels moths, fleas, ants, plant pests; A. absinthium is an anthelmintic. Herbivores do not seem to be bothered by the bitterness of wormwood. Cows and sheep willingly eat this plant, but milk and butter then acquire an unpleasant taste and smell. Absinthe. In the leaves of wormwood up to 0,5%, essential oil, thick, bitter, dyed dark green or blue with chamazulene. It has all the healing properties of the plant and is very fragrant, leaves or oil in its pure form is used to flavor strong drinks. Artemisia-flavoured wines have been known since ancient Greece, but for modern people, the history of wormwood spirits begins with absinthe. Classical absinthe is made from white grape spirit, distilled with bitter wormwood, green anise and fennel. This combination can be decorated with hyssop, lemon balm, mint, coriander and wormwood A. pontica. Chlorophyll gives absinthe its green color, although there is also a white version of the drink. Absinthe is very strong, before use it is sweetened and diluted with water. The components of absinthe dissolve poorly in water, so the finished drink becomes cloudy and opalescent. Absinthe appeared at the end of the 1840th century in Switzerland. In the XNUMXs, it was used by the French troops to prevent malaria, after which it became fashionable. In French cafes and bistros, they drank absinthe at five o'clock in the evening, this time was called "green hour". At the end of the XNUMXth century, mass production of absinthe was launched, it became very cheap, gained wide popularity, especially among Parisian artists and writers, and became one of the symbols of bohemian culture. The essential oil of bitter wormwood contains up to 10% ketone thujone. It is also found in other plants, including thuja, which is why it got its name. Thujone acts on receptors for gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and serotonin receptors in the brain, causes convulsions and kidney failure in high concentrations, and affects consciousness. Because of thujone, psychoactive properties were also attributed to absinthe, at the beginning of the XNUMXth century, some countries even banned this drink, but, as recent studies have shown, the concentration of thujone in absinthe is too low, and it is not dangerous. Absinthe affects the mind no more than other spirits, he was rehabilitated, and he is regaining popularity. Not so bitter wormwood. There are many types of wormwood that are aromatic but not as bitter as A. absinthium. This is common wormwood, it is also simple wormwood and mugwort A. vulgaris, very fragrant Roman wormwood (Pontic, Black Sea, small) A. pontica, panicled wormwood A. procera, almost devoid of bitterness lemon wormwood (God's tree) A. abrotanum, alpine wormwood A. mutellina. In all types of wormwood, young apical leaves dried in the shade, collected together with buds, are used, but before flowering, only lemon wormwood is sometimes consumed fresh. Dry wormwood, ground into powder, is added to the meat at the tip of a knife one or two minutes before cooking, otherwise the spice will lose its flavor: it cannot stand heating. Dry wormwood leaves are placed in the marinade, after placing them in a gauze bag so that they do not stick to the meat. Lemon wormwood flavors the dough: in dried form, this herb is completely devoid of bitterness. And other drinks. Wormwood is German for "vermouth". This is also the name for fortified wine made from white or red grapes, flavored with herbs, flowers and fruits. There are different varieties of vermouth, but the main component of any is alpine wormwood or essence from it. In addition to wormwood, vermouth contains dozens of additives, including yarrow, mint, cinnamon, cardamom, black elderberry and nutmeg, as well as cinchona bark, dubrovnik and tansy, which, along with alpine wormwood, add bitterness to vermouth. And lemon wormwood, along with lemon balm and catnip, add a citrus note to it.
Wormwood is an integral component of many liqueurs, that is, strong drinks that are infused with sugar. (Sugar is also added to absinthe, but already in a glass, so absinthe is not a liquor.) One of the most famous wormwood liqueurs is chartreuse. At the beginning of the 130th century, they began to produce it in the Grand Chartreuse monastery as a medicine. The chartreuse recipe is a secret kept to this day. It is known, however, that the composition of the liquor includes XNUMX herbs, including alpine wormwood. And since the XNUMXth century, cats have lived in the monastery, they are very beautiful. The Chartreuse breed is one of the first breeds bred in Europe, but it has nothing to do with liquor. Other types of sagebrush grow in the Alps, including low-growing, about 18 cm, alpine sagebrush A. glacialis and spike sagebrush A. spicata, aka A. genipi. The locals call all these herbs "jenepie" and make a sweetish spicy liquor of the same name from them. The fortress of jenepi is 40-50 degrees, they drink it after meals to improve digestion. And in the Balkans, a bitter liquor infused with wormwood and other aromatic herbs, pelinkovac ("pelin" in Serbian - "wormwood"), is popular. Tarragon - tarragon. Sagebrush tarragon A. dracunculus stands apart from other sagebrushes. It is practically devoid of bitterness, has a peculiar taste and aroma. Western culinary specialists distinguish between French tarragon, which reproduces only vegetatively, and Russian, which can also be grown from seeds, but its smell is weaker than that of French. The aroma is lost during seed propagation. Tarragon leaves do not contain bitterness, only carotene, ascorbic acid, alkaloids, flavonoids, coumarins and essential oil. Its main component is the monoterpene sabinene, which is also part of the essential oils of some junipers, pines, geraniums, and marjoram. Another monoterpene, myrcene, is found in hops, turpentine, dill, coriander, and wild rosemary. Tarragon is harvested in May - June and August - September. Young fresh leaves are put in a variety of salads, meat and fish soups. Tarragon harmonizes well with fish dishes, chickens and eggs. Dried leaves are also used as a spice. The stems are used in pickling vegetables and flavored with vinegar. Tarragon, like other wormwoods, improves appetite and stimulates digestion, and also normalizes the functioning of the endocrine glands. Traditional medicine uses it as an anthelmintic, although the Central Asian wormwood A. cina is more suitable for this purpose. This plant is not food, but medicinal, anthelmintic action has sesquiterpene lactone santonin, which is rich in leaves and stem. In 1887, the Tiflis pharmacist Mitrofan Lagidze began adding Caucasian tarragon (tarragon) extract to sparkling water. The drink was very popular, but had one drawback - it was not stored for a long time, because the essential oil that gives it aroma is volatile. The composition of the popular Tarragon drink, in addition to tarragon extract, citric acid and sugar, included vanilla flavoring and ascorbic acid, which stabilized the taste. Then a simplified technology was developed, according to which the tarragon extract was replaced by a flavoring additive. A bright green color was achieved with the help of malachite green dye, but then it turned out that it was unhealthy. Now for staining "Tarhuna" use blue and yellow dyes. They also sell a drink made from natural tarragon, it is yellowish, but it is bottled in green bottles. Thus, all traditions are observed. Author: Ruchkina N.
Sagebrush. Botanical description, plant history, legends and folk traditions, cultivation and use
Wormwood is a widely known annual or perennial herbaceous plant. In Ukraine, 19 species of wormwood grow wildly, which are used in various ways as spicy-flavoring plants. Wormwood grows like a weed in wastelands and pastures, steppe areas throughout Ukraine. Flowers are used as a spicy seasoning for meat dishes and some drinks. In the distillery industry, the flowers and leaves of wormwood are used to infuse a special bitter vodka "Absinthe", which is very popular in England and France. An aqueous or alcoholic extract of wormwood herb is added to wines such as vermouth. Earlier in Western Europe, wormwood was cultivated over large areas. At present, in particular in England, the production of "Absinthe" is declining, as it has a depressing effect on the nervous system. Wormwood-tarragon is found in the Forest-steppe and Steppe of Ukraine along the banks of rivers, gullies, wastelands, along roads. It is most commonly used to flavor wines and liqueurs. On the Don and Kuban, in the Kalmyk steppes and in the south of Ukraine, it is used as a seasoning for meat dishes, especially roast geese, and wild game. Tarragon grass is put in meat soups for smell. It is also used for pickling cucumbers and tomatoes, sauerkraut, apples, pears. In France, a special aromatic spicy vinegar is prepared from tarragon grass. To do this, take a mug of pure wine vinegar and pour it into a glass vessel, fill it with chopped tarragon grass and close the lid. Insist on the sun for 10-12 days. Then the vinegar is drained, the leaves are squeezed, the infusion is filtered and bottled. Often, finely chopped garden iris rhizomes are added to the tarragon grass. The vinegar obtained in this way is considered the best seasoning for salted fish, herring, etc. In Germany, meat and fish are rubbed with fresh tarragon grass to prevent flies from landing on them. Wormwood grows everywhere. It is used in the same way as wormwood. The fire, into which the grass of Poland is thrown, reliably repels mosquitoes and midges. During an expedition or relaxing in the bosom of nature, it is advisable to hang wormwood branches in a tent so that mosquitoes do not bother at night. In the villages, the floors in the rooms used to be covered with greenery, to which wormwood grass was necessarily added. She repelled not only flies and mosquitoes, but also fleas. Wormwood oil, highly valued in perfumery and medicine, is obtained from the wormwood herb. Author: Reva M.L.
Wormwood-absinthe, Artemisia absinthium L. Classification, synonyms, botanical description, nutritional value, cultivation
Names: az. azhdy yovshan; arm. bartsvenyak; cargo, abzinda; German wermut; Goal. alsem; dates malurt; Swede, malort; English wormwood; fr. absinthe; it. assensio; Spanish ajenjo; hung. feher iirom, Slovenian. and Serb. pelin; Czech pelynek belolisty; Polish piolun, bylica piolun; Japanese yomogi. Perennial plant about 1 m high; leaves are silvery-gray, dissected, multi-lobed. Flower heads are yellow, small, oblique, collected in panicles. Grows on dry hills and gardens. Seeds are light brown, 0,5-1 mm long and 0,2-0,4 mm wide and thick. The weight of 1000 seeds is 0,09-0,12 g. They lose their germination after 3-4 years. As spices, mainly wild-growing wormwood is used. However, it is cultivated on a small scale in European countries. Like wormwood-absinthe, another wormwood is used and grown - A. abrotanum L. The plant is also perennial, reaches 1 m in height; pale green leaves; flowers are yellowish, small, numerous, in baskets. In some regions of the Caucasus, the leaves of A. annua L. are used as a seasoning for dishes. Author: Ipatiev A.N.
Wormwood (wormwood absinthe), Artemisia absinthium. Recipes for use in traditional medicine and cosmetology
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Wormwood (wormwood absinthe), Artemisia absinthium. Tips for growing, harvesting and storing
Wormwood, also known as wormwood absinthe (Artemisia absinthium), is a herb that is widely used in medicine and cooking. Tips for growing, harvesting and storing wormwood: Cultivation:
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Wormwood leaves and flowers are used in traditional medicine to treat various ailments such as gastrointestinal disorders, insomnia, and allergies. Wormwood can also be used as a seasoning for many dishes such as soups and meat dishes. Please note that wormwood can be toxic in large quantities, so it is recommended that you consult your doctor before using it for medical purposes.
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