Wormwood Toxicology

Avoid use with hypersensitivity to any of the apparatus of wormwood, decidedly the essential oil composition. Theoretically, wormwood may be contraindicated in patients with an basal birthmark with hepatic heme amalgam because thujone is a porphyrogenic terpenoid.

Wormwood is classified as an belling herb by the FDA because of the neurotoxic abeyant of thujone and its derivatives. Few studies certificate the assurance of wormwood admitting its continued history of use as a aliment additive. Thujone bears a apparent structural affinity to camphor, pinene, anethole, and citral.