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Absinthe with thujone5/25/2023 ![]() Some accounts, such as an 1896 catalog by French absinthe producer Pernod-Fils referenced by the US-based Wormwood Society, credit Frenchman Dr. Artemisia absinthium) has for thousands of years been believed to have medicinal properties and been used for indigestion, reducing fevers, fighting malaria and even eradicating intestinal worms (hence its name). Native to Europe, Northern Africa and parts of Asia, wormwood (a.k.a. According to Swiss absinthe producer Kübler, that same year Madame Henriette Henriod brewed a special liquor in Val de Travers, mixing together botanicals including wormwood as a type of medicine. In 1769, a newspaper from the western, French-speaking Swiss Canton of Neuchâtel published the first known advertisement for absinthe, listing it as an extract. Yet its quite conventional beginnings can be clearly traced back to the mild-mannered region of Val-de-Travers, Switzerland, below the limestone-cliffed Jura mountains, where a greenish-gray perennial that gave the herbal elixir its name thrives on the lush borders of the region’s forests and roadsides.Īnd so it is that neither the what nor the where, but rather the who of absinthe’s beginnings that has been called into question, becoming only the first in a long twisted tale of controversy and appearances that continues to plague the “green fairy” even today. ttb.gov/images/pdfs/absinthe_advertisiing_announcement_final.Banned and beloved, feared and revered, one would assume the birth story of absinthe to be as spirited as its character.
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