Anti-vaxxers are buying stores out of wormwood, which they believe is the next miracle Covid cure

[Nevilledog]

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Anti-vaxxers have begun promoting wormwood to cure COVID-19. The latest so-called cure follows in the footsteps of hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, urine, and weight-loss pills.

It seems anti-vaxxers will take anything except the actual COVID vaccines.

Wormwood is the common name of a plant in the Artemisia genus. Best known as a flavoring agent for liquors such as absinthe and vermouth, wormwood has also been used in traditional medicine, often as a de-wormer. Hence, the name. Today artemisinin, a derivative of the plant, is used in a combination of other therapies to treat malaria, which is also a parasite.

There are numerous other claims about conditions that wormwood supposedly treats or cures. There is little to no evidence that it works for these purposes.

The World Health Organization has specifically said there's no evidence that wormwood and/or artemisinin are effective treatments for COVID, BBC News reports.

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I'm gonna start promoting hemlock or belladonna as the real cure. Fact: Once you're dead, you'll never get Covid!

[rockfordfile]

1. LOL those people are useless.

[Bev54]

2. These people must all be full of worms and parasites. They do not seem to understand

that covid is a virus.

[Texaswitchy]

3. Tree Tea oil is next.

It does work on cuts.

[madaboutharry]

4. Such lunacy.

What is wrong with these people? I simply can not get my head around this level of resistance to getting a vaccine, a vaccine that will literally save your life.

[Scrivener7]

5. I'd think drinking absinthe would be a whole lot more fun.

(It's made of wormwood.)

[Nevilledog]

6. It's all fun and games until you go blind.

[Scrivener7]

9. In the old days, they thought it turned you into a murderer.....

.... hey! And all the Covid spreaders are taking it...

[haele]

7. Pregnant women should not take this.

Wormwood can also cause paralysis, organ failure, and death.
Heck, it's even discussed as a dangerous herb in the bible.
Stupid people.

Haele

[Nevilledog]

11. Doubt that's in the Cliffs Notes version of the Bible.

[electricbro45]

8. LMFAO

You know, I keep wracking my brain to figure out something that could sound like a cure and sell it to these fucking idiots and make some cash.....In all seriousness, these dummies waste so much money on false treatments when a FREE fucking vaccine has been available for a long time now. Let us see, free vs. (some bullshit non-cure). Hmmmmm

[Ocelot II]

10. Shrooms. Maybe Amanita phalloides.

Just about guarantees that you won't have covid after a few days.

[Retrograde]

20. But they're delicious!

I went to a talk on mushroom toxicology once. The lecturer said that people who had survived eating A. phalloides said it was the best mushroom they'd ever had!

There are edible species of Amanita - my late great-uncle used to collect them in western New York. He tried to teach me how to tell the difference, but I never trusted myself enough to eat them. (He died in his 80s, and not of mushroom poisoning)

[Ocelot II]

21. I guess I'll pass on that culinary adventure.

I did find a morel in my back yard a couple of years ago and I ate that with gusto, but I think I'll forego the Amanitas.

[RainCaster]

12. Make a flashlight out of it...

Wash it with bleech,
Add 6 doses of horsey wormer,
cover liberally with the Colonel's 11 herbs,
Saturate with the other half of that gallon of urine you've been drinking,
And insert like any other suppository.

[Talitha]

13. All their other cures worked wonders. So yeah, what the hell - why not hawk another one?

Their 'stupid' runs REAL deep!!!

[niyad]

14. Sorry. The next big thing will be pokeweed.

[Ocelot II]

15. Doll's-eyes and monkshood, too. A nice salad...

[niyad]

17. Indeed it will.

[keithbvadu2]

16. I have been trying to keep track of the COVID miracle cures and treatments.

I have been trying to keep track of the miracle cures and treatments.

If I missed some, please add them.

https://democraticunderground.com/100215874832

[FakeNoose]

18. Yep - bought some last week at Ollivander's Wand Shop

I just happened to be on Diagon Alley and stopped in for a spell.

[mountain grammy]

19. love the hemlock idea.

they drank bleach for chrissake.

[Celerity]

24. ...

[GoCubsGo]

22. I wonder if they'll still keep using it when they learn that one of the Ukrainian names

for wormwood is "Chernobyl."

[eppur_se_muova]

23. Wormwood contains thujone, a neurotoxin. Overuse can have devastating results.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/absinthe-history/