How To Use Wormwood In A Sentence
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The more classic version is the almost dry, bitter drink with the strong aroma of wormwood and other bitter herbs.
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During an archaeological dig in the 1970s, instructions for treating malaria with an herb called wormwood, or artemisia, were found in a 2,000-year-old Chinese tomb.
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Half were given Lomatol, a German herbal preparation containing peppermint, fennel seed, caraway seed and wormwood.
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By the signs I expected them both to live, and I had what was needed to hand, in bark and roots gathered the night before, and herbs the old carnifex gave me, dried vervain and wormwood and seeds of parsley.
Wildfire
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But her end is bitter as wormwood , sharp as a twoedged sword.
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I had wormwood, soapwort, dill, yarrow, tarragon, chives, rosemary, lavender, angelica, many kinds of basil and thymes.
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In the belief that wormwood could protect against malaria and dysentery, the French government had issued rations of absinthe to the troops fighting in Algeria, to be mixed with the water in their canteens.
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Ingredient: Rhizome , Star - anise, Atractylodes Rhizome , wormwood leaves, soy candle etc.
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And all carried rue and wormwood in their hands, and myrrh and zedoary in their mouths, as protection against infection.
Royalty Restored
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Frictions of the head and outward parts, sacculi of henbane, wormwood at his pillow, &c.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Grind up 8 grams of tormentil and mix it with 4 grams of santonica wormwood, 4 grams of aloe, 4 grams of rhubarb, 4 grams of ginger, and 4 grams of gentian.
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Maybe, but probably not because of any psychotropic chemical contained in the wormwood from which absinthe is distilled.
Boing Boing
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I had wormwood, soapwort, dill, yarrow, tarragon, chives, rosemary, lavender, angelica, many kinds of basil and thymes.
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I do not know that our village postmaster is exceptionally inattentive to his functions, but there is a careless, reckless, easy-go-lucky kind of way of doing business in this country which suits the hasty existence of the natives themselves, and the character and disposition of their Irish fellow-citizens, but which is gall and wormwood to English residents of my stamp.
Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
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The Katzer pages and this botanical log confirm the similar Russian names: mugwort is Чернобыльник ( "Chernobylnik") or botanically Полынь Обыкновенная (Common Polyn);, and according to the southernwood page, wormwood aka Artemisia absinthium is Полынь горькая ( "Bitter Polyn" again).
Archive 2004-05-01
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Her stories were harmless, yet she was treated then as roughly as any supergrass in Wormwood Scrubs.
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Examples of carbonizing herbs to stop bleeding are carbonized cattail pollen, carbonized human hair, carbonized agrimony and carbonized wormwood or mugwort.
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A discussion of botanicals such as chaparral, lobelia, wormwood, belladonna, and kava is provided from the point of view of experienced clinicians.
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Other artemisias, some American, are also called wormwood; still others include southernwood, tarragon, silver king Artemisia, old woman, or dusty miller, Roman wormwood, sagebrush, and the Levant wormseed, which yields santonin.
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And for that matter, surely someone ought also to have known that absinthe is made with wormwood, not digitalis.
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A short while after, I passed out - the wormwood must have made me sick.
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One warning: do not plant near beans, caraway, tomatoes, coriander or wormwood-they do not work well together.
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Ingredient: word like Atractylodes Rhizome , Patchouli, wormwood leaves, Camphor leaves, volatile liquid etc.
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The drug is extracted from the leaf of the Chinese weed Artemisia annua or sweet wormwood.
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Absinthites or Wormwood wine, a nauseously bitter medicament then much in use; and this being evidently {242} the _bitter potion of Eysell_ in the poet's sonnet, was certainly the nauseous draught proposed to be taken by Hamlet among the other extravagant feats as tokens of love.
Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850
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Ingredient: Wordlike Atractylodes Rhizome , Patchouli, wormwood leaves, Camphor leaves etc.
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Poultices of wormwood boiled in grease, barm, or wine, may be applied with good success to white swellings.
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Ingredient: Agallochum leaves, wormwood , Herb of Balsamiferou Blumea, carrageenan etc.
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Herewith a brief taste of this fine book on the art of corrupting humans as described in the letters of a senior tempter to his nephew Wormwood.
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The streams run dry on poisoned land, where stands the angel of the key, in hailfire strafing spume and sand as fish rot on a wormwood sea.
Archive 2009-07-01
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this proverbially bitter plant, wormwood
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Eventually, Old World plants were incorporated into these heady infusions, some of which included gentian root, colombo root, cinchona bark, ground ivy, horehound, cassia, wormwood, and angostura bark and root.
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It is engaging to note that the Arabs used to feed their sheep wormwood as great as artemisia that have been both great known as spices for service from behind pain.
Archive 2009-11-01
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Chinese first extracted artemisinin from the sweet wormwood for medicinal use more than 2,000 years ago.
Canada.com
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For example, southernwood or wormwood planted around the border of the garden may discourage aphids from entering.
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Hard water spoils the color of vegetables; a pinch of pearlash or salt of wormwood will prevent that effect.
A Poetical Cook-Book
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I had wormwood, soapwort, dill, yarrow, tarragon, chives, rosemary, lavender, angelica, many kinds of basil and thymes.
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His claim to have cured gastralgia by appositions of powder of red rose, coral and mastic, wormwood and mint, aniseed and nutmeg, is certainly not to be borne out, but he also had other systems, and often he cured, because he possessed the science of simples, which is now lost.
Là-bas
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There was also Mr. Wormwood, the noli-me-tangere of literary lions -- an author who sowed his conversation not with flowers but thorns.
Pelham — Complete
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Yes, absinthe is made with wormwood, which contains a psychoactive chemical called thujon, which causes mild hallucinations.
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There's wormwood, woodsorrel, masterwort, zedoary, and angelica; and lastly, there is a little bottle of the sovereign preservative against the plague, as prepared by the great Lord
Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
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Examples of carbonizing herbs to stop bleeding are carbonized cattail pollen, carbonized human hair, carbonized agrimony and carbonized wormwood or mugwort.
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Thujone is extracted from the wormwood leaves used in flavouring absinthe as well as vermouth and green chartreuse.
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If you love me, go and fetch me a little conserve of Roman wormwood and mithridate.
Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
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There's wormwood, woodsorrel, masterwort, zedoary, and angelica; and lastly, there is a little bottle of the sovereign preservative against the plague, as prepared by the great Lord
Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
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Ingredient: Agallochum leaves, wormwood , Herb of Balsamiferou Blumea, soy candle etc.
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He has filled me with bitterness ; He has made me drunk with wormwood.
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Wormwood buttering rack, Edwardian rat-hair doormat, woodworm in French fluting and the set of wooden birthing stirrups ...... are not necessarily an essential accompaniment to the modern bric a brac home, to which he adds:
Archive 2008-07-01
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Confusing mugwort with wormwood is at the level of confusing potato with black nightshade because they share the genus Solanum.
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We rested that night on the south side of a hill, which the wind had partly denuded of snow, leaving here and there spots quite divested of it; but found neither grass nor water, both of which were greatly needed, and but scant supply of sage (wormwood) which we were obliged from the absence of every other, to use as a substitute for fuel.
Life in the Rocky Mountains
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Hemingway later blamed the damage on woodworm, a witty reference to absinthe's quasi - magical ingredient - wormwood.
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But her end is bitter as wormwood , sharp as a twoedged sword.
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Hemingway later blamed the damage on woodworm, a witty reference to absinthe's quasi - magical ingredient - wormwood.
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Tyler and Anna Mayfield move to Wormwood, Nev., looking to escape the postcollege funk that permeated their lives in Nebraska.
WEEKLY BOOK RELEASES FOR DECEMBER 6TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
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A relatively new drug, atovaquone, which interfered with a different step in P. falciparum metabolism, can be countered by a single amino acid mutation in a protein called cytochrome b.3 The very latest drug, artemisinin, is derived from the Chinese sweet wormwood plant.
The Edge of Evolution
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I had wormwood, soapwort, dill, yarrow, tarragon, chives, rosemary, lavender, angelica, many kinds of basil and thymes.
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Ingredient: Atractylodes Rhizome , Patchouli, wormwood leaves, Camphor leaves, soy candle etc.
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Wormwood Scrubs is the last place Murphy's legion of admirers would have expected him to end up, as he took second place on Smartie in the Aintree Grand National of 2001.
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She had just swallowed a philtre of toad skin and wormwood, and was finding it difficult to concentrate.
ARS DRACONIS • by Jens Rushing
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In the valleys of central China, a fernlike weed called sweet wormwood grows in fields formerly dedicated to corn.
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Wormwood buttering rack, Edwardian rat-hair doormat, woodworm in French fluting and the set of wooden birthing stirrups ...... are not necessarily an essential accompaniment to the modern bric a brac home, to which he adds:
Archive 2008-07-01
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Bitter herbs that would help would be gentian, artichoke, bitter orange, turmeric, wormwood and chamomile.
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One warning: do not plant near beans, caraway, tomatoes, coriander or wormwood-they do not work well together.
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The infusion of Wormwood makes a useful fomentation for inflammatory pains, and, combined with chamomile flowers and bay leaves, it formed the anodyne fomentation of the earlier dispensatories.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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The Katzer pages and this botanical log confirm the similar Russian names: mugwort is Чернобыльник ( "Chernobylnik") or botanically Полынь Обыкновенная (Common Polyn);, and according to the southernwood page, wormwood aka Artemisia absinthium is Полынь горькая ( "Bitter Polyn" again).
Archive 2004-05-01
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Confusing mugwort with wormwood is at the level of confusing potato with black nightshade because they share the genus Solanum.
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This is a powdered mixture of natural ingredients that contains garlic as well as alfalfa, wormwood, yellowdock and pennyroyal.
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Pernod, a century ago the dominant absinthe brand, was reformulated as a wormwood-free "pastis" when absinthe was banned.
Sampling Absinthe's Dubious Charms
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I had wormwood, soapwort, dill, yarrow, tarragon, chives, rosemary, lavender, angelica, many kinds of basil and thymes.
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For such a man these herbs should be used: lupin, helenium (which we call elf-dock), marsh mallow, dock elder, wormwood and strawberry leaves.
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Ingredient: Agallochum leaves , wormwood , Herb of Balsamiferou Blumea , wooden powder, bond etc.
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CAS, which is 60% proof, is handmade using traditional Bohemian skills and combines pure alcohol with wormwood, herbs and thujone.
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He smelled the ashes of fever, the scent of wormwood and roses, tinctures of blessed oil.
THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
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For such a man these herbs should be used: lupin, helenium (which we call elf-dock), marsh mallow, dock elder, wormwood and strawberry leaves.
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-- Anise; cardamom; carraway; citron; coriander; fennel; gromwell; melon; musk grains; mustard; nettle; parsley; saffron; tulip, seedy buds of; wormwood.
The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened
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Ingredient: Agallochum leaves, wormwood , Herb of Balsamiferou Blumea, soy candle etc.
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[1868] Tristes voluptatum exitus, et quisquis voluptatum suarum reminisci volet, intelliget, as bitter as gall and wormwood is their last; grief of mind, madness itself.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Well, it is a type of Artemisia, commonly called wormwood one species of which is also known as Absinthe, and it is used in herbal preparations and Asian cuisine – in fact, one of my favorite foods is buckwheat Soba flavored with the fresh leafiness of Mugwort, which gives a really interesting greenish tint to the noodles.
DSH Perfumes Part Two: Scents In Living Color
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She knew dressmaking, and she had been taught to cook a little bit, and how to care for the sick and wounded; she knew something of the use of plants and herbs - sage and lavender, fennel and hore-hound and wormwood.