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
CHRYSOERIOL	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
CINEOLE	0	Plant	10.0	4590.0	0.64	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ACID	18	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
CIRSILINEOL	10	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIRSIMARITIN	9	Leaf	not available	20.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIRSIMARITRIN	0	Leaf	not available	20.0	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
CITRAL	53	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
COBALT	2	Leaf	2.0	11.3	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Plant	8.0	9.0	-0.56	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
COSMOSIIN	4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
COSMOSIIN	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COUMARIN	57	Essential Oil	not available	3000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUMINYL-ALCOHOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYNAROSIDE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Plant	1370.0	1980.0	-0.15	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-3-CARENE	8	Plant	not available	510.0	1.41	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
DELTA-CADINENE	9	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIOSMETIN	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
EO	0	Leaf	1344.0	26000.0	1.27	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Plant	4000.0	34000.0	1.84	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.

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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 *