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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAMPESTEROL | 2 | Plant | not available | 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 | not available | 4100.0 | -0.57 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAMPHENE | 9 | Plant | 15.0 | 375.0 | 0.04 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | not available | 31800.0 | 1.41 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAR-3-ENE | 0 | Plant | 127.0 | 1080.0 | not available | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
| CAR-4-ENE | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAR-4-ENE | 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. |
| CARBOHYDRATES | 0 | Leaf | 116424.0 | 693000.0 | 0.65 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CARVACROL | 37 | Plant | 8.0 | 18720.0 | 1.72 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CARVACROL | 37 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CARVONE | 19 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli. |
| CARYOPHYLLENE | 31 | Essential Oil | not available | 13600.0 | -0.51 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CHLOROGENIC-ACID | 77 | 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. |
| CHLOROGENIC-ACID | 77 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CHROMIUM | 24 | Leaf | 0.3 | 2.0 | -0.48 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Phytoalexin | 1 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |
| Piscicide | 3 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| PKC-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Plasmodicide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Potassium-Sparing | 1 | Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp. |
| PPAR-Gamma-Antagonist | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Preservative | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Progestational | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prolactinogenic | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Proliferant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prooxidant | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Propecic | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prostaglandigenic | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prostaglandin-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prostaglandin-Sparer | 1 | Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990. |
| Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prostaglandin-Synthetase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prostatitigenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Protease-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |