"Wormwood" is a symbol of the testing by the peoples in all spheres of their activity of the bitter, tragic consequences of their rejections, violations, perversions of God's Will, His Covenants, Commandments.

"Wormwood" is also a symbol of man's accumulated bitter experience of sinful life, wickedness, consequences of iniquities, false teachings, used by man to please his flesh and pervert the true perception of the figurative meaning of the Bible sayings, destroying the spirit, soul and body of man.