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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Thymus vulgaris (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Common Thyme; Garden Thyme; Thyme
How this plant is used
Food
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
GERMACRONE 7 Essential Oil *
GLYCINE 12 Plant Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
HEX-5-EN-1-OL 0 Essential Oil *
IRON 6 Leaf 25.0 147.0 -0.55 *
IRON 6 Plant 1075.0 1508.0 1.04 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ISOBORNEOL 7 Essential Oil *
ISOCHLOROGENIC-ACID 4 Leaf Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
ISOCHLOROGENIC-ACID 4 Shoot *
ISOEUGENOL 16 Plant Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
ISOLEUCINE 3 Plant 4680.0 5054.0 -0.62 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ISOTHYMONIN 4 Plant *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Plant Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
KILOCALORIES 0 Leaf 2990.0 -0.05 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
L-BORNEOL 0 Plant ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
LABIATIC-ACID 1 Leaf *
LAURIC-ACID 7 Plant 2300.0 2484.0 -0.36 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LEUCINE 2 Plant 4300.0 4644.0 -0.94 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LIMONENE 60 Essential Oil 5300.0 -0.71 *
LIMONENE 60 Plant 15.0 5200.0 2.71 *
LINALOL 0 Plant 20.0 17420.0 3.51 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiperistaltic 2 *
Antiperoxidant 8 Planta Medica, 57: A54, 1991.
Antiperoxidative 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiPGE2 1 *
Antiphenylketonuric 2 Martindale's 29th
Antiphotophobic 2 Martindale's 29th
Antipityriasic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiplaque 7 Osawa, K., Matsumoto, T., Maruyama, T., Takiguchi, T., Okuda, K., and Takazoe, I., Studies of the antibacterial activity of plant extracts and their constituents against periodontopathic bacteria, Bull Tokyo Dent. Coll., 31 (1), 1990, 17-21
Antiplasmodial 2 *
AntiPMS 5 *
Antipneumonic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipodriac 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antipolio 3 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antipoliomyelitic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiporphyric 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiprogestational 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiprolactin 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiproliferant 8 Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Antiproliferative 2 *
Antiprostaglandin 6 *