Path: shell.portal.com!svc.portal.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!mr.net!winternet.com!katt From: katt@winternet.com (Eric Katt) Newsgroups: alt.alcohol,alt.bacchus,alt.consciousness.mysticism,alt.drugs.culture,alt.folklore.herbs,alt.magick,alt.magick.tyagi,alt.psychoactives Subject: Re: Absinthe makes the heart grow ... Followup-To: alt.alcohol,alt.bacchus,alt.consciousness.mysticism,alt.drugs.culture,alt.folklore.herbs,alt.magick,alt.magick.tyagi,alt.psychoactives Date: 1 Feb 1996 00:07:11 GMT Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4ep07f$jao@blackice.winternet.com> References: <30e18979.6725291@news.lglobal.com> <4csq7p$eqe@bolivia.it.earthlink.net> <4cva0f$gf@nkosi.well.com> <30F3F432.391E@etno.uib.no> <4d1uh4$eeb@tombstone.kent.edu> <30FEE79A.4AC1@fail.com> <1771532AAS85.UZS106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: parka.winternet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: shell.portal.com alt.alcohol:4596 alt.bacchus:970 alt.consciousness.mysticism:5206 alt.drugs.culture:10917 alt.folklore.herbs:25691 alt.magick:65397 alt.magick.tyagi:6531 alt.psychoactives:13649 Torrey Peacock (peacock@cts.com) wrote: : Just picked up on this rather *interesting* thread, and I wonder if : someone could post (or repost) the botanical name of the herb in : question. My sources seem to have several herbs listed as "wormwood," and : I want to be sure I've got the right one. Thought I'd try adding the : liquid extract to some of the legally available "absinthe" liqueur, and, : restored to something of its former grandeur, check it out. artemisia absinthium There are a few essential oil vendors that carry oil of wormwood, but ideally one would want to extract the thujone (active constituent of absinthe besides the alcohol) from the other contents of the oil before adding to any Pernod or similar liqueur. My car's frozen in so I can't get to the library to look up the actual chemical breakdown of the contents of the oil. I checked on the AGIS database but couldn't get a percentage breakdown. There was an excellent article in Scientific American a few years ago, and a book that did a decent coverage of the Absinthe phenomena called 'Absinthe: History in a Bottle'. Eric