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Common Names
Common Thyme; Garden Thyme; Thyme
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BETA-CADINENE | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-CAROTENE | 53 | Leaf | 4.0 | 25.0 | -1.03 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-CAROTENE | 53 | Plant | 24.0 | 25.0 | -0.59 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | 17800.0 | -0.56 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE | 0 | Plant | 15.0 | 605.0 | -0.06 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-PHELLANDRENE | 3 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-PHELLANDRENE | 3 | 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. |
| BETA-PINENE | 13 | Essential Oil | not available | 3400.0 | -0.65 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-PINENE | 13 | Plant | 15.0 | 420.0 | 0.02 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-SITOSTEROL | 47 | Leaf | 1520.0 | 1600.0 | -0.21 | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| BETA-TERPINEOL | 3 | Essential Oil | not available | 19800.0 | -1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-TERPINEOL | 3 | Plant | 79.0 | 673.0 | not available | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
| BORNEOL | 35 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BORNEOL | 35 | Leaf | 15.0 | 1462.0 | 1.33 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BORNEOL-ACETATE | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BORNYL-ACETATE | 12 | Leaf | 16.0 | 795.0 | 0.02 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BORON | 4 | Plant | 34.0 | 48.0 | -0.33 | Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron). |
| CAFFEIC-ACID | 102 | Leaf | not available | 16900.0 | 1.63 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CALCIUM | 28 | Leaf | 2806.0 | 16700.0 | -0.12 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CALCIUM | 28 | Plant | 16935.0 | 22534.0 | 0.96 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| AntiCFS | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticheilitic | 2 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antichilblain | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Anticholestatic | 1 | Shukla, B., Visen, P.K.S., Patnaik, G.K., Tripathi, S.C., Srimal, R.C., Dayal, R., and Dobhal, P.C. Hepatoprotective Activity in the Rat of Ursolic Acid Isolated from Eucalyptus Hybrid. Phytotherapy Research 6: 74-79, 1992. |
| Anticholinesterase | 1 | L. Gracza (1985) as cited by Buchbauer re antiacetylcholinesterase. |
| Anticholinesterase? | 1 | L. Gracza (1985) as cited by Buchbauer re antiacetylcholinesterase. |
| Anticirrhotic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Anticlastogen | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticlimacteric | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticoagulant | 1 | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |
| Anticoeliac | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Anticold | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticolic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticolitic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticomplement | 2 | Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. |
| Anticomplementary | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticonvulsant | 5 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Anticorneotic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Anticoronary | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| AntiCrohn's | 2 | Martindale's 29th |