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Thujone

We all know that thujone is the chemical substance derived from wormwood which is used to produce absinthe (the most notorious drink nowadays). Thujone is a chemical compound, it is a colorless liquid with a distinctive menthol odor.

Thujone owes its name to the plant that is found in the arbovitae genus, Thuja, from where its name originates. It is found in nootka, cypress, junipers, mugwort, sage, tansy, and wormwood.

Thujone is C10H16O. in fact thujone is best known as the most famous components of the absinthe beverage, wormwood and artemisa absinthium in natural distilled oil from.

The chemical structure of thujone is loosely related to have of hallucinogenic properties. Thujone is well known because it belongs to the family of monoterpene keton. So, there are two principle enantiomers found in wormwood, which are: isothujone 3 and (+,-)3 isithujone. It is insoluble in water but soluble in ethanol, is colorless: thujone traces can also be found in Vick Vaporrub (registrated trade mark), perfumes and in pest repellents for rodent and mice.

The thujone is guilty of absinthes bitterness but such bitter flavor may be quitted off with sugar. Thujone is many times a replace for the name of absinthe, because in many places where absinthe is for sale it is under the name of thujone, but this do not means that thujone is similar to absinthe and it is drinkable, thujone is an essential part of absinthe. Neat thujone would be lethal if consumed so it is not recommendable to drink beverages with high thujone level.

Now at days and since many years ago, thujone has been extremely important in pharmaceutics products, it is used to elaborate medicine. It was though that excessive thujone content is absinthe led to effects which were specifically worse than those effects associated with over consumption of alcohol in every form of alcoholic drinks, which is bound to have been true for some of the less scrupulously adulterated products, creating the condition of absinthism.

Undistilled wormwood essential oil contains a substance called thujone, which is an epileptic in extremely high doses and thujone can cause renal failure, and many cases ends of the supposed ill effects of the drink were blamed on that substance in 19th century studies. Now at days, recently studies have shown that a little bit of thujone in absinthe and made with properly distillation process will make a drinkable absinthe, but thujone is mostly banned in many countries because of its poisonous powers but thujone is legal in the birthplace of absinthe. For example the thujone limit in the united Kingdome is 10 mg, therefore all absinthe drinks with thujone content being sold must comply with this limit.

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