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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Thymus vulgaris (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Common Thyme; Garden Thyme; Thyme
How this plant is used
Food
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BETA-CADINENE 0 Essential Oil *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Leaf 4.0 25.0 -1.03 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Plant 24.0 25.0 -0.59 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Essential Oil 17800.0 -0.56 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Plant 15.0 605.0 -0.06 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Essential Oil *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Plant Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
BETA-PINENE 13 Essential Oil 3400.0 -0.65 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Plant 15.0 420.0 0.02 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Leaf 1520.0 1600.0 -0.21 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
BETA-TERPINEOL 3 Essential Oil 19800.0 -1.00 *
BETA-TERPINEOL 3 Plant 79.0 673.0 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
BORNEOL 35 Essential Oil *
BORNEOL 35 Leaf 15.0 1462.0 1.33 *
BORNEOL-ACETATE 0 Essential Oil *
BORNYL-ACETATE 12 Leaf 16.0 795.0 0.02 *
BORON 4 Plant 34.0 48.0 -0.33 Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron).
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Leaf 16900.0 1.63 *
CALCIUM 28 Leaf 2806.0 16700.0 -0.12 *
CALCIUM 28 Plant 16935.0 22534.0 0.96 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antisunburn 2 *
Antisyndrome-X 6 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
AntiTGF-beta 2 *
Antithiamin 1 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 69.
Antithrombic 1 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Antithromboxane 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jul-87.
Antithyreotropic 1 *
Antithyroid 5 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitinnitic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
AntiTNF 3 *
Antitoxoplasmotic 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antitrichinosic 1 Madaus, G. 1976. Lehrbuch der Biologischen Hilfmittel. Vol,. 1-3. 2862 pp. (+ 144 p. index). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildescheim. Reprint of 1938 Madaus.
Antitriglyceride 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antitrypanosomic 1 *
Antitubercular 1 *
Antitumor 24 Zheng, G-Q., Kenney, P.M., and Lam, L.K.T. Sesquiterpenes From Clove (Eugenia caryophyllata) As Potential Anticarcinogenic Agents. Journal of Natural Products 55(7): 999-1003, 1992.
Antitumor (brain) 3 *
Antitumor (Breast) 7 *
Antitumor (Cervix) 2 *