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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
P-HYDROXYBENZOIC-ACID-4-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Plant 17200.0 18576.0 0.13 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHENOLS 0 Plant 800.0 27200.0 1.63 *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Plant 2410.0 2603.0 -1.11 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHORUS 4 Leaf 160.0 950.0 -0.74 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Plant 1703.0 2502.0 -0.52 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Plant 1520.0 1760.0 1.01 *
PLANTEOSE 0 Seed *
POTASSIUM 14 Leaf 1626.0 9680.0 -0.91 *
POTASSIUM 14 Plant 7667.0 9302.0 -0.87 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROTEIN 0 Leaf 16632.0 99000.0 -1.13 *
PROTEIN 0 Plant 99000.0 -0.61 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID-4-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
RESIN 0 Plant ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Leaf 0.7 4.3 -0.16 *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Plant 4.0 53.0 2.90 *
ROSMARINIC-ACID 57 Inflorescence 26000.0 -0.44 *
ROSMARINIC-ACID 57 Plant 26000.0 -0.14 Fitoterapia No.62: 166.
ROSMARINIC-ACID 57 Shoot 5000.0 13500.0 -0.22 *
SALICYLATES 7 Leaf 180.0 1830.0 3.41 J. Amer. Diet. Ass. 85{8}:950.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor 3 *
Protisticide 2 Chemical Express, 7: 285, 1992.
Psychoactive 1 *
Psychotropic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
PTK-Inhibitor 2 *
Purgative 1 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 3 Uda, Y., Price, K. R., Williamson, G., Rhodes, M. J. C. 1997. Induction of the Anticarcinogenic Marker Enzyme, Quinone Reductase, in Murine Hepatoma Cells In Vitro by Flavonoids. Cancer Lett., 120 (2): 213-216.
Radioprotective 2 *
Renoirritant 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.
Respirainhibitor 1 Merck 11th Edition
Respirastimulant 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Respirodepressant 1 *
Rodenticide 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Rubefacient 2 *
Schizophrenigenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Secretogogue 2 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Secretolytic 1 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Sedative 25 Ortiz de Urbina, A.V., Martin*, M.L., Montero, M.J., Moran, A., and San Roman, L. 1988. Sedating and Antipyretic Activity of the Essential Oil of Calamintha sylvatica subsp. Ascendens. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 25: 165-171, 1989.
Serotonin-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Serotoninergic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).