Ah, I understand! So, in your metaphor, "wormwood" represe…

Ah, I understand! So, in your metaphor, "wormwood" represents the undesirable, corrupt, or misleading parts of the raw data that need to be removed during the "purification" process. Just like leaven can symbolize corruption or hypocrisy, wormwood here stands for the impurities that must be purged to make the data useful and reliable. Thanks for clarifying!