Vitalundfitmit100 Wormwood powder, organic 300 g

Wormwood (Latin Artemisia absinthium) belongs to the sunflower family (Asteraceae). The shrub-like plant grows to between 40 cm and one meter. It is a herbaceous, perennial and perennial plant. Wormwood grows in Central and Southern Europe, North Africa, Asia and North and South America. The plant can be found on wasteland or on stony embankments. The stem of the wormwood is hairy gray-tomentose and branched in the upper part. The leaves differ from bottom to top. The leaves below, including the larger ones, have triple plumage, with the upper leaves usually only one or two pinnate. During the flowering period, wormwood produces yellow flowers. Because of the essential oils, wormwood has a characteristic and aromatic smell.

In addition to other herbs, wormwood has the strongest bitter substances. The bitter value is between 15,000 and 25,000. The most effective substances in wormwood are the sesquiterpene bitter substances and various essential oils such as artemisinin and thujone. Especially during the flowering period, the branch tips have the highest concentrations of the active ingredients.

Special ingredients of wormwood

•   Bitter substances from the group of sesquiterpene lactones 0.15 to 0.4%
•   Absinthin 0.2 to 0.28%
•   Artabsin
•   Matricine
•   Anabsinthine
•   Ascorbic acid
•   Essential oils (thujone / isothujone) 0.2 to 0.8%
•   various flavonoids