Question about preparing wormwood

I got ahold of some wormwood at a pagan/newage/wicca shop. It is a ground mixture of leaf and wood material. I smoked a couple of bowls and it tasted absolutely disgusting and made my throat feel like I was swallowing razors. I figured out that I should pick out all the wood chunks (duh!). With just the leaf material it was a LOT easyer to smoke and didn't hurt my throat anymore. It took about five to six bowls before I noticed any effect, but once I did feel it it was quite pleasent. However it was still rather unpleasant to smoke.
My first question is: Does anyone know of a plant/herb (other than weed or tobaco) that I could mix with the wormwood that would give it a nicer taste and a smoother smoke? Hopefully something that is easy to obtain, like at the sort of shop I got the wormwood.
Second, I have heard that you can make a tea out of wormwood. Does any one know what plant/water ratio I should use, how long I should let it steep, Etc.?
Also, it seems to be leaving a resin in my bowl. Is this worth scraping and smoking like pot resin? Is it more potent than the plant material?
Thanks for any help.

 

go to erowid, look up wormwood, go to experiences, go down to preperations/recipes and ull see a whole recipe on how to xtract the thujone which is smokeable and not tasting/irritating as what ur smoking....