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Common Names
Common Thyme; Garden Thyme; Thyme
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GERMACRONE | 7 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GLYCINE | 12 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli. |
| HEX-5-EN-1-OL | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| IRON | 6 | Leaf | 25.0 | 147.0 | -0.55 | Duke, 1992 * |
| IRON | 6 | Plant | 1075.0 | 1508.0 | 1.04 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| ISOBORNEOL | 7 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOCHLOROGENIC-ACID | 4 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
| ISOCHLOROGENIC-ACID | 4 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOEUGENOL | 16 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | 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 | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| KAEMPFEROL | 75 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli. |
| KILOCALORIES | 0 | Leaf | not available | 2990.0 | -0.05 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| L-BORNEOL | 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. |
| LABIATIC-ACID | 1 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | not available | 5300.0 | -0.71 | Duke, 1992 * |
| LIMONENE | 60 | Plant | 15.0 | 5200.0 | 2.71 | Duke, 1992 * |
| LINALOL | 0 | Plant | 20.0 | 17420.0 | 3.51 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Autotoxic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Bacteriostatic | 1 | Chin. J. Tuber. Respir. Dis. |
| Bacteristat | 3 | Lamikanra, A., Ogundaini, A.O., and Ogungbamila*, F.O. Antibacterial Constituents of Alchornea cordifolia Leaves. Phytotherapy Research 4(5): 198. |
| Barbituate-Synergist | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Beta-Blocker | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Bronchodilator | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Bronchoprotectant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Bronchorelaxant | 2 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
| Bruchiphobe | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Calcium-Antagonist | 8 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Calcium-Antagonist? | 1 | Biochimica & Biophysica Acta, 1115: 69, 1991. |
| Calcium-Channel-Blocker | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cancer-Preventive | 50 | Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp. |
| Candidicide | 18 | Martindale's 28th |
| Candidistat | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Carcinogenic | 8 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Carcinogenic? | 1 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |