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

Common Names

Common Thyme; Garden Thyme; Thyme

How this plant is used

Food

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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
BETA-CADINENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Leaf	4.0	25.0	-1.03	Duke, 1992 *
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	not available	17800.0	-0.56	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Plant	15.0	605.0	-0.06	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE	3	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
BETA-PINENE	13	Essential Oil	not available	3400.0	-0.65	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Plant	15.0	420.0	0.02	Duke, 1992 *
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	not available	19800.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-TERPINEOL	3	Plant	79.0	673.0	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
BORNEOL	35	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL	35	Leaf	15.0	1462.0	1.33	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ACETATE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNYL-ACETATE	12	Leaf	16.0	795.0	0.02	Duke, 1992 *
BORON	4	Plant	34.0	48.0	-0.33	Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages.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	not available	16900.0	1.63	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	2806.0	16700.0	-0.12	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Plant	16935.0	22534.0	0.96	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)

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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
Cytochrome-P450-1A1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inhibitor	2	Pizzorno, J. 1998. Total Wellness. Prima Health, a division of Prima.
Cytoprotective	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytotoxic	12	Planta Medica, 57: A113, 1991.
Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Decongestant	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor	3	Jim Duke's personal files.
Deliriant	2	Merck 11th Edition
Dentifrice	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Deodorant	2	Martindale's 28th
Depressant	1	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermal	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dermatitigenic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic?	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator	2	Duke, 1992 *
Digestive	1	Michael Castleman 1991. The Healing Herbs. Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA 436 pp.
Diuretic	14	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.