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
P-HYDROXYBENZOIC-ACID-4-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	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.
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Plant	17200.0	18576.0	0.13	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHENOLS	0	Plant	800.0	27200.0	1.63	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Plant	2410.0	2603.0	-1.11	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHORUS	4	Leaf	160.0	950.0	-0.74	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Plant	1703.0	2502.0	-0.52	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Plant	1520.0	1760.0	1.01	Duke, 1992 *
PLANTEOSE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Leaf	1626.0	9680.0	-0.91	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Plant	7667.0	9302.0	-0.87	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROTEIN	0	Leaf	16632.0	99000.0	-1.13	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Plant	not available	99000.0	-0.61	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID-4-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	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.
RESIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Leaf	0.7	4.3	-0.16	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Plant	4.0	53.0	2.90	Duke, 1992 *
ROSMARINIC-ACID	57	Inflorescence	not available	26000.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
ROSMARINIC-ACID	57	Plant	not available	26000.0	-0.14	Fitoterapia No.62: 166.
ROSMARINIC-ACID	57	Shoot	5000.0	13500.0	-0.22	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLATES	7	Leaf	180.0	1830.0	3.41	J. Amer. Diet. Ass. 85{8}:950.

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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
Antidote (Paraquat)	1	Martindale's 28th
Antidysenteric	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antidysgeuzic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidyskinetic	2	Martindale's 28th
Antidysmenorrheic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antidyspeptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidysphagic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiEBV	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antieczemic	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiedemic	11	Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antielastase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiemetic	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiencephalitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiencephalopathic	6	Martindale's 29th
Antiencephalopathic?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiendometriotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antienterotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiepileptic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antiesherichic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.