WORMWOOD

Latin: Artemisia absinthium

Latvian: vērmele

German: Wermut

Swedish: malört

Estonian: koirohi

Lithuanian: kartusis kietis

Russian: полынь горькая

The plant is poisonous!

Perennial 60 – 120 cm tall herbaceous plant with a strong bitter smell and taste. Not

very common in gardens, roadsides, fences, weedy places. Rhizome thick, often

woody. Stem erect, branched, with many adherent hairs and punctate glands.

Blooms from July to September. There are a lot of flower baskets, they are drooping,

rounded, very branched. Flowers yellow. The fruit is a very small seed, without hairs.

APPLICATION

Medicinal plant and herb. In medicine, sedges are used to stimulate the secretion of

the stomach, bile and pancreas, to stimulate the appetite, as a mild pain reliever and

sleep aid, and to expel worms.

Contains an essential oil used as a flavoring in the wine and liqueur industry.

In cases of poisoning, there may be convulsions, mental disorders.

Avots: fitoterapija.lv

Augu katalogs ir tapis ar Eiropas Savienības finansiālu atbalstu Pārrobežu sadarbības programmas 2014.–2020. gadam projekta LVIII-062 “Versts of Feelings 2” ietvaros