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Wormwood

Nature · Myth & story

A bitter Artemisia of medicine and drink. Revelation’s falling star named Wormwood is a later meeting with this plant, not a second herb.

Also known as Artemisia

  • Wormwood is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists absinthion (wormwood) among drugs: a bitter Artemisia prepared as draughts and remedies. First-century pharmacological use of the plant, not Revelation’s star and not a cult calendar.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

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