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
ERIODICTYOL	10	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUDESMOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
FAT	0	Leaf	13440.0	80000.0	0.47	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Plant	69480.0	80000.0	0.41	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	370000.0	389000.0	0.65	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
FIBER	15	Plant	179294.0	693000.0	3.48	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(CRUDE)	0	Leaf	not available	202000.0	1.95	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(DIETARY)	0	Leaf	not available	363000.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
FIXED-OIL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
GAMMA-TERPINENE	11	Essential Oil	17800.0	49500.0	-0.15	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE	11	Plant	36.0	5460.0	1.69	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TERPINEOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TERPINEOL	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.
GENKWANIN	3	Leaf	not available	43.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL	35	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL	35	Plant	0.0	10660.0	1.38	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETATE	5	Plant	0.0	3380.0	3.51	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.