Marketed as a premium malt beverage in cherry and berry flavors, the drink contained taurine, guarana, caffeine and wormwood, the supposed psychoactive ingredient of absinthe.
en.wikipedia.org One way they can do this is to repel insects and other pests through their smell, as do alliums and wormwood.
en.wikipedia.org They'll steep almost anything in alcohol to come up with a bracing beverage: fennel, bark, wormwood, even radicchio and artichokes.
www.theglobeandmail.com Wormwood can think more clearly than he can talk after a fashion.
en.wikipedia.org They will include elderberry, epazote, goji berry (lycium) gotu kola, lovage, nettles, red shiso, sacred basil, sweet cicely, sweet woodruff, white sage and wormwood.
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