Plant Thymus serpyllum (Lamiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Creeping Thyme

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
GERANIOL	35	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
GERANYL-ACETATE	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
GERMACRENE-D	2	Plant	3.0	573.0	0.06	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Plant	3.0	57.0	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOL	0	Plant	8.0	134.0	-0.40	Duke, 1992 *
LINALYL-ACETATE	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
LUTEOLIN-7-GLUCOSIDE	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
METHYL-CARVACROL	0	Plant	10.0	2292.0	1.73	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-THYMOL	0	Plant	1.0	153.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Plant	13.0	229.0	-0.22	Duke, 1992 *
NEROLIDOL	11	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
NERYL-ACETATE	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
OLEANOLIC-ACID	64	Plant	not available	4800.0	0.22	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
P-CYMEN-8-OL	0	Plant	10.0	172.0	2.16	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Plant	237.0	3285.0	0.43	Duke, 1992 *
ROSMARINIC-ACID	57	Shoot	not available	23000.0	0.22	Jim Duke's personal files.
SABINENE	5	Plant	1.0	19.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
SCUTELLAREIN	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
SCUTELLAREIN-HETEROSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
SERPYLLIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Enterotoxic	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Estrogenic	2	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Expectorant	10	Duke, 1992 *
FLavor	23	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	12	Duke, 1992 *
Fungiphilic	1	J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroirritant	1	Martindale's 29th
Gastroprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Glaucomagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(+)icide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide	2	Duke, 1992 *
GST-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatocarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoprotective	5	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	10	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.