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Ngải đắng (Wormwood, Absinthe)
Artemisia absinthium
Absinthe
β-Thujone up to 70 percent. Extremely neurotoxic.
ABSOLUTELY CONTRAINDICATED in all cosmetic routes.
Famously an ingredient of 19th-century French absinthe, banned in many countries for association with 'absinthe madness' (hallucinations, convulsions).
Today absinthe is permitted with EU-limited thujone.
| β-Thujone | 40.0 – 70.0 % |
| α-Thujone | 5.0 – 18.0 % |
Artemisia absinthium grows in Europe and North America. A herb with silver leaves.
Family Asteraceae.
In art history, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Verlaine, Oscar Wilde all linked with absinthe.