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

Common Names

Common Thyme; Garden Thyme; Thyme

How this plant is used

Food

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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
SALICYLIC-ACID-2-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONINS	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
SCLAREOL	5	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM	60	Leaf	not available	16.0	0.85	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SILICON	4	Leaf	3.4	20.2	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Leaf	250.0	1490.0	-0.38	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Plant	430.0	1341.0	-0.23	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
STIGMASTEROL	12	Leaf	80.0	85.0	0.08	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
SYRINGIC-ACID-4-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGOYL-GLUCOSE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Leaf	16800.0	100000.0	-0.13	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Plant	80000.0	100000.0	0.24	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL	23	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Plant	5.0	6.0	-0.14	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
THIAMINE	0	Leaf	1.0	5.5	0.07	Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE	4	Plant	2520.0	2722.0	-1.03	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
THUJAN-4-OL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
THYMOL	71	Essential Oil	231000.0	600500.0	1.25	Duke, 1992 *
THYMOL	71	Plant	15.0	24100.0	2.40	Duke, 1992 *
THYMOL	71	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	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
Anticancer	11	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Kidney)	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Anticancer (Liver)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Pancreas)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Prostate)	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Anticancer (Skin)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticarcinogenic	4	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	5	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticardiospasmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	10	Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticarpal-Tunnel	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract	8	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticervicaldysplasic	3	Duke, 1992 *