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
MYRCENE	22	Essential Oil	not available	17500.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Plant	36.0	676.0	0.27	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENOL-8	0	Plant	15.0	3900.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENOL-8-ACETATE	0	Plant	15.0	2600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Plant	1500.0	1620.0	0.74	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
N-TRIACONTANE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
NARINGENIN	56	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEROLIDOL	11	Plant	not available	80.0	0.61	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
NIACIN	39	Leaf	9.0	54.0	-0.53	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Plant	not available	54.0	-0.32	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
OCIMENE	2	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEANOLIC-ACID	64	Plant	not available	6300.0	0.67	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
OLEIC-ACID	18	Plant	4700.0	5076.0	0.11	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Leaf	not available	420.0	-0.24	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMEN-8-OL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMEN-8-OL	0	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.
P-CYMENE	16	Essential Oil	78300.0	441300.0	3.01	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Plant	146.0	20800.0	4.99	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.

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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.