If Absinth wormwood is a problem on your property, spring thaw is a good time to hand-pull it. As the snow recedes and before the weed starts to grow it pulls quite easily. Wormwood is a nonnative herb that has spread out of the gardens and into the fields. When mature and dry, it is a grayish sage-smelling plant about 2-3 feet tall. As snow recedes, soil is soft from spring breakup and the wormwood roots are still dormant if you get them in the first couple weeks. This makes for easy and efficient pulling that gets most of the roots. It is not rhizomatous, spread by root, so any small fragments left will not re-sprout.

 Over 30 years ago a patient came to Dr. Roderic Gillilan’s office with frequent headaches and nausea whenever she went to the movies, rode in a car, or simply was out in the sun. She had gone to plenty of eye specialists and other doctors, but found no relief. Dr. Gillilan was a specialist in vision training. After three weeks doing carefully-designed eye exercises for a half-hour a day her symptoms were cured and have never come back. Since that time he has treated hundreds of similar people with a cure rate of 93%.