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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
CAMPESTEROL 2 Plant 30.0 -0.60 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CAMPHENE 9 Essential Oil 4100.0 -0.57 *
CAMPHENE 9 Plant 15.0 375.0 0.04 *
CAMPHOR 41 Plant 5.0 45.0 -0.63 J. Ethnopharmacology, 39: 167.
CAPRIC-ACID 3 Plant 1200.0 1296.0 1.34 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CAPRYLIC-ACID 5 Plant 2400.0 2592.0 -1.00 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CAR-3-ENE 0 Essential Oil 31800.0 1.41 *
CAR-3-ENE 0 Plant 127.0 1080.0 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
CAR-4-ENE 0 Essential Oil *
CAR-4-ENE 0 Plant Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Leaf 116424.0 693000.0 0.65 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Plant 639400.0 690552.0 0.12 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CARVACROL 37 Essential Oil 16700.0 80200.0 -0.70 *
CARVACROL 37 Plant 8.0 18720.0 1.72 *
CARVACROL 37 Shoot *
CARVONE 19 Plant Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Essential Oil 13600.0 -0.51 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Shoot *
CHROMIUM 24 Leaf 0.3 2.0 -0.48 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antivaccinia 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivaginitic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antivertigo 1 *
Antiviral 28 *
Antiviral? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antivitiligic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antixerophthalmic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiyeast 2 *
Anxiolytic 8 *
AP-1-Inhibitor 1 *
Aphidifuge 3 *
Apifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Apoptotic 10 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor 6 *
Artemicide 2 Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Arteriodilator 1 Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Ascaricide 2 *
Asthma-preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent 2 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Ataxigenic 1 Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.