Thread: Wormwood, it does wonders..

cool, ill try it if i can get some.

Very interesting, thanks for the info

I don't understand how you can drink that stuff... i'd rather go to a buffet then do shots of ipecac than have to drink a mugfull of that stuff.

its not that bad with a mixture of another tea and a lot of sugar

Wormwood is a close relative of Mugwort which would explain why it works so well. Mugwort is another good herb to aid in lucid dreaming and dream recall. Put the two together and you have a great lucid/dream aid

Wormwood was the basic ingredient of Absinth; Artemisia absinthium
This stuff is definitely psychoactive

I have no problems with harsh tastes.
I also use Ginseng rootpowder once in a while

You would have to take a large and harmfull amount of wormwood by itself to get any serious psychoactive effects. Mixing it with marijuana gives a different kind of high which I like, however.

Tastes absolutely morbid, but worth it. It is the most effective herb for dreaming I've ever found.

Also, to clear up a myth, Thujone has little to no effect in Absinthe, contrary to popular belief. An individual would die from alcohol poisoning far, far before he felt the effects of thujone, which consist of convulsions and seizures. Here's one of the many studies done for reference: http://www.thujone.info/thujone-absinthe-5.html
Also:
http://www.feeverte.net/thujone.html

Thujone is also not responsible for the dream lucidity produced by Wormwood.
Very high amounts of thujone can be found in common sage; it remains effect less.

If anyone has information on what exactly in wormwood helps with dreams, I'd be very interested, I have yet to find anything noteworthy about the subject. The internet is too ridden with anti-thujone myths to fully uncover wormwood's potential.

You might want to find a better source of wormwood. If it is a heavily travelled road, then herbs that you gather from next to them can pick up heavy metals from the car fumes. You might want to consider digging some up and planting it in your yard as far away from a road as you can get or try to find some as far away from the roads as you can.

thats exactly what i did, but still, its actually a road that cars pass at a rate of only like one a minute

There is a bunch of reliable vendors online which sell wormwood. The usual price is 114 grams for eight (8.00) dollars. I am not sure what Dreamviews stance on posting vendor information is, so I will not post any.

Originally Posted by vusiliyk

Ive already posted a thread about wormwood, but now that all of the snow melted and plants are growing, i picked some more wormwood to make tea with.
It grows by my house in washington on the side of some roads that tend to be a little dusty and have pineneedles along with other weeds alongside the road. I put about 1.5 teaspoons of it in boiling water, let it steep, added a lot of sugar becase of the bitterness and went to bed.
My dream started to be unsually vivid and life like. so i started to think like i do in real life and sure enough i remembered to do my first in-dream reality check! I got lucid and i really reccomend that you try to find some if you have trouble with lucids.

Very interesting. I tried some once when a friend bought a "kit" to make abysnth, which contained a lot of wormwood. It was an awful taste, like gasoline but I can get over that. You mentioned Washington - I'm from there as well, just wondering if I can find some anywhere near where I am, or if you have tips on where I can look - you can PM me if you prefer

Precautions & Side Effects

"Since wormwood contains thujone, a chemical similar to tetratetrahydrocannibinol (THC) which is found in marijuana, the FDA has placed wormwood in the unsafe category. It has been reported that thujone may cause nerve damage and other side effects. Consult with a healthcare professional or doctor knowledgeable in herbal medicine before taking wormwood."

Also very interesting! But I'm willing to look into this. Anybody know where I can get some of this herb?

i found wormwood plants at the gardening section onf my walmart... for those of you in sunny parts of america.

Ugh, I'm in New York.

Originally Posted by hisnameistyler

Ugh, I'm in New York.

Why don't you simply search online?

there's also wormwood supplements you can buy at Vitamin stores or possibly your local supermarket, but some people don't like it in a pill.

Originally Posted by MrFantasy

there's also wormwood supplements you can buy at Vitamin stores or possibly your local supermarket, but some people don't like it in a pill.

Why not? Not as potent?

potency is an issue because a lot of herbal supplement manufactures skimp on the active ingredients. Some more then others. Even if they don't skimp, the processes used to get them into pill form can harm the active ingredients.

The tinctures are normally better. Fresh herb is best.

Non-mechanistically, some people feel that taking an herb in something other then natural form, harms your spiritual connection with the plant. The first reason is enough for me though...

edit: personally, I think herbal pills are more often then not a complete waste of time, money and herbs

Do you think they grow in the UK?