i just got some and know its apparently the most powerfuly medicinal of all the thymes.

oh and wormwood, what medical values does it posess? i know it can be used for worming, though that is risky. has it got anything else?

thanks

i still don't know if absinthe is illegal in the UK cos i thought it was but hear that the law had been overturned and have found shops that sell it.

to make absinthe i would need to do some distilling and thats illegal so i wont... *shifty eyes*
hey, look over there...

I guess, according to Grieve, it is the same as Thymus vulgaris...

http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/t/thygar16.html

maby i should keep some thyme on standby as she does love bread but can't eat it.

thx

Wormwood is, however, still used in a well-known horse linamint in the USA. I use it occasionally, for joint pain. Despite my suspicions of its long-term effects, I find it preferable to experimenting with the nightshades or aconitums for the same purpose. For muscle relaxation, sage (preferably clary, which, they say, is less apt to cause seizures) is more helpful anyway. I would recommend the younger members of the realm save such substances for experimentation in their latter years, when their ability to bear children or live a long and healthy life is no longer an issue....after all, you have to save up some fun things to do in your dotage!

I didn't realize thyme was so useful; will have to dig up my herb books again...

unfortunately the dangerous part of wormwood is as far as i know the bit that is important for making it actualy absinthe.

but thujone (the active alcoloid) is also found in sage aparently as well as another herb i'm sure i saw yesterday.

the thing about absinthe now is that the alcohol percentage is very high so you die of alcohol poisoning before you die of thujone OD, nice.

there is also a legal limit on the amount of wormwood you can put in it i think.

the advantage i can see in using nightshades as ointments is that they are so redily absorbed through the skin. though that means you should be very careful when weeding out anoying bittersweet (woody nightshade). or any other solanaceae (i am including potatos and tomatos).

well i am rambling and shall stop now.

If anyone else has ever used it externally, I would be interested in any observations....

We had a great thread last year on Absinthe. Here's a search link, the first few sites were so good, I couldn't single one out...
Enjoy! lynn

talk about irony, i have a friends who once drunk absinthe, he's not incredibly educated and if u refered to it as le fee vert he would just look at you puzzled, but he started hallucinating that the bottle was a green fairy of all things. lol
other people with him werent too pleased as he hen procedded to punch the "fairy" destroying the bottle and about £30 worth of absinthe left in the bottle.

oh and eiberin, i wouldn't lke to hear from antyone who used internaly except in ery small amounts as it will probably cause gastric pain, or death.

i have a friend who took hemlock once. she knew what she was doing roughly being quite well versed in herblore as it is. she mixed a little of the juice with sugar and ate it.
she had amazing vivid and wierd dreams, and vicious stomache cramps. while different families of plants i'd be wary of using it anything otehr than externaly, i'm wary of using it externaly even. unfortunately to talk to ost people who'd taken it internaly i would expect you'd need a ouija board.or to cross the border yourself, either temprarily or permanently. course i could be wrong but bittersweet contains the alcaloid ducetine ( i think thats its name, some thing like that. after all its Solanum dulcamara) as well as the normal tropane alcaloids of solanaceae which would coomplimate matters.

well i'f i'm comp;letely wrong discard this and tell me. but i do know more about the nightshades than is healthy.