green fairy

karmakaze · Post by **karmakaze** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 9:05 pm

Chemist & Druggist, August 23, 2003 p34

How the green fairy keeps malaria at bay. (absinthe)(Brief Article)

Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2003 CMP Information Ltd.

Like you need another excuse to have an absinthe? Well, it seems that it really could help should you be suffering from a bout of malaria.

Researchers this week have announced progress on understanding how artemisinins - derived from artemisia or sweet wormwood - actually attack the malaria parasite. Although wormwood has a traditional role in treating malaria, no one had identified the mechanism until now. Researchers led by Professor Sanjeev Krishna at the St George's Medical School, have found that artemisinins work by selectively inhibiting calcium pumps in the parasites' cellular structure. The St George's team pioneered a technique using frog's eggs to study calcium pumps in the malaria parasite.

Of course, those of you who imbibe too much extract of wormwood in the form of absinthe or vermouth (from the French for wormwood, vermout, or the German name Wermut) may think that it causes the little plasmodia to go gaga, e la Vincent van Gogh.

However, it seems the much fabled hallucinatory properties are more likely to be connected to thujone, once thought to have similar properties to tetrahydrocannabinol, but which is now thought to antagonise GABA transmission at neuronal synapses.

As for that colonial antimalarial, a stiff gin and tonic - the tonic water's quinine is really too dilute to have a therapeutic effect.

Copyright: CMP Information Ltd.

PushEast · Post by **PushEast** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:53 pm

Is that true, that you cannot buy absinth in this country?

karmakaze · Post by **karmakaze** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:15 pm

PushEast wrote:Is that true, that you cannot buy absinth in this country?

welllll..... that depends on who you ask. and what foreign website you order it from.

iblis · Post by **iblis** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:45 pm

...And which donkey cart it fell off the back of.

rec|use · Post by **rec|use** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 8:47 am

Is that true, that you cannot buy absinth in this country?

yeah it can't actually be purchased inside the country
you have to order it off the net
and lot of times you aren't buying the real deal there either

here is a good page to go
http://www.feeverte.net/guide/

it gives reviews on the different brands
and info and how and where to get them

PushEast · Post by **PushEast** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 10:43 am

May be it will be easier to make it by yourself. Does anyone have a distillatory?

Mercurygriffin · Post by **Mercurygriffin** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 12:51 pm

PushEast wrote:May be it will be easier to make it by yourself. Does anyone have a distillatory?

Don't. it is always shit. take $60-$100, and buy the real deal. Look around. If you go the right path it is attainable. Try the Black. It is tasty. :twisted:

FalseAbsolution · Post by **FalseAbsolution** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 2:01 pm

Yes the black is very tastey... and this is America... nothing is unatainable if you know the right people or the right keywords...