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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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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ERIODICTYOL 10 Plant *
EUDESMOL 0 Essential Oil *
EUGENOL 76 Plant Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
FAT 0 Leaf 13440.0 80000.0 0.47 *
FAT 0 Plant 69480.0 80000.0 0.41 *
FAT 0 Seed 370000.0 389000.0 0.65 *
FERULIC-ACID 61 Plant Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
FIBER 15 Plant 179294.0 693000.0 3.48 *
FIBER(CRUDE) 0 Leaf 202000.0 1.95 *
FIBER(DIETARY) 0 Leaf 363000.0 -0.14 *
FIXED-OIL 0 Seed *
GALLIC-ACID 62 Plant Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Essential Oil 17800.0 49500.0 -0.15 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Plant 36.0 5460.0 1.69 *
GAMMA-TERPINEOL 0 Essential Oil *
GAMMA-TERPINEOL 0 Plant Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
GENKWANIN 3 Leaf 43.0 *
GERANIOL 35 Essential Oil *
GERANIOL 35 Plant 0.0 10660.0 1.38 *
GERANYL-ACETATE 5 Plant 0.0 3380.0 3.51 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hepatocarcinogenic 1 *
Hepatoprotective 16 *
Hepatotoxic 3 *
Hepatotropic 2 *
Herbicide 12 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
HIF-1alpha-Inhibitor 1 *
Histamine-Inhibitor 2 *
Histaminic 1 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor 1 Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991.
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor 2 *
Hydrocholerectic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic 3 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hyperglycemic 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.
Hypertensive 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypnotic 3 Schultes, R.E. De Plantis Toxicariis e Mundo Novo Tropicale Commentationes XXXVI. Justicia (Acanthaceae) as a Source of an Hallucinogenic Snuff. Economic Botany 44(1): 61-70, 1990.
Hypoarginanemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Hypocholesterolemic 15 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypocholesterolemic? 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoglycemic 10 Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipemic 1 *