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

Common Names

Common Thyme; Garden Thyme; Thyme

How this plant is used

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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
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 *

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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
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
TOPO-2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor	5	Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	2	Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.
Tracheorelaxant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Tranquilizer	4	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal	5	Duke, 1992 *
Tremorigenic	1	Martindale's 28th
Trichomonicide	10	Martindale's 29th
Trichomonistat	2	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Trypanocide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Trypsin-Enhancer	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-93.
Tumor-Promoter	2	Duke, 1992 *
Tumorigenic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Ubiquiot	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic	2	Phytotherapy Research, 4: 93.
Uricosuric	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant	1	Martindale's 29th
Urinary-Antiseptic	1	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.