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Thyme Thymus vulgaris

Thyme in the garden

Common Names

Thyme , Common Thyme, Wild Thyme

Botanical Name

Thymus vulgaris

Family

LAMIACEAE or LABIATAE Mint Family

Thyme Medicinal Properties & Benefits
Common Uses:	Abrasions/Cuts * Congestion/Chest & Sinus * Cough * Culinary * Facial and Skin care * Insect Repellent * Toothache/Earache *
Properties:	Warm* Analgesic* Aphrodisiac* Expectorant* Digestive* Antiperspirant/Deodorants* Antibacterial* Depurative* Antifungal* AntiViral* Insect repellents* Breath* Antiparasite* Nervine* Antispasmodic* Antitussive*
Parts Used:	Leaves, stems and flowers
Constituents:	thymol and carvacrol

Soothe a nightime cough with
a hot cup of thyme tea

The medicinal actions of thyme is attributed to its volatile oil constituents, thymol and carvacrol. Thyme has primarily been used respiratory ailments for its infection-fighting and cough suppressive qualities.

Thyme has primarily been used respiratory ailments for its infection-fighting and cough suppressive qualities. Thyme tea is an old time favorite cough, cold and hangover remedy, especially when sweetened with thyme honey.

Spicy-herbaceous, sweet, medicinal scent. Use with caution, can be very irritating to skin. Learn More

Side Effects:

Generally considered safe, excessive amounts can effect menstrual cycles. When isolated from the rest of the plant the thymol is toxic and should be used with great care and in moderation. The essential oil should never be applied undiluted and is not suitable for use in animals or small children.

How to Use: Thyme

Preparation Methods :Water and oil infusions, tinctures, essential oil. A healthy culinary herb, and pleasant tea.

Remedies using : Thyme Anticellulite Bath Synergistic Blends* Anticellulite Bath Synergistic Blends* Boil Treatment* British Herb Tobacco* Cardamom Steam decongestant* Comfrey - Coconut Healing Salve* Digestive Tonic* Digestive Tonic 2* Dry cough chest rub* Head Lice Treatment* Herbal decongestant steam and bath* Herbes de Provence* Respiratory - bronchitis blend* Room Disinfectant Spray* Sore muscle ointment* Thyme and Peppermint mouthwash* Thyme tea* Thyme Vinegar* Vinegar and Herbs Rinse* Window insect strips*

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(Thymus vulgaris) Origin- Spain Method of Cultivation- Organic Common Method Of Extraction: Steam distilled Parts Used: Fresh or partially dried leaves Note Classification: Middle Aroma: Warm, spicy-herbaceous, powerful

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Thyme Medicinal Uses & Benefits

Thyme flowers for :Sachets, insect repellent
	Place sprigs of thyme among clothes or linens to dispel musty odors and deter insect pests. Both the leaves and flowers can be used to stuff sachets.

Thyme oil for :Fever, bronchitis
	In respiratory conditions thyme is antiseptic and a bronchodilator and expectorates mucus from the lungs. Thyme helps reduce fever by inducing sweat... Marlene Ericksen, Healing with Aromatherapy (2000)

Thyme oil for :Toothache/ tooth infections
	Thyme has been used to fight tooth infections and toothache.

Thyme tea for :Cough, hangover, flu
	Wild thyme tea is recommended for cough, hangover, flu, and sore throat. Thyme honey is ideal for sweetening expectorant herb teas. . . (0000-00-00),

Thyme flowers for :Sachets, insect repellent
	Place sprigs of thyme among clothes or linens to dispel musty odors and deter insect pests. Both the leaves and flowers can be used to stuff sachets.

Thyme oil for :Fever, bronchitis
	In respiratory conditions thyme is antiseptic and a bronchodilator and expectorates mucus from the lungs. Thyme helps reduce fever by inducing sweat... Marlene Ericksen, Healing with Aromatherapy (2000)

Thyme oil for :Toothache/ tooth infections
	Thyme has been used to fight tooth infections and toothache.

Thyme tea for :Cough, hangover, flu
	Wild thyme tea is recommended for cough, hangover, flu, and sore throat. Thyme honey is ideal for sweetening expectorant herb teas. . . (0000-00-00),

Plant Description

Koehler's Medicinal-Plants 1887

T. vulgaris is a perennial with a woody, fibrous root. The stems are numerous, round, hard, branched, and usually from 4 to 8 inches high, when of the largest growth scarcely attaining a foot in height. The leaves are small, only about 1/8 inch long and 1/16 inch broad, narrow and elliptical, greenish-grey in colour, reflexed at the margins, and set in pairs upon very small foot-stalks. The flowers terminate the branches in whorls.

The plant has an agreeable aromatic smell and a warm pungent taste. The fragrance of its leaves is due to an essential oil, which gives it its flavouring value for culinary purposes, and is also the source of its medicinal properties. It is in flower from May to August.

^{Grieve, Maude}

There are three varieties usually grown for use, the broad-leaved, narrow-leaved and variegated: the narrow-leaved, with small, greyish-green leaves, is more aromatic than the broad-leaved, and is also known as Winter or German Thyme. The fragrant Lemon Thyme, likewise grown in gardens, has a lemon flavour, and rather broader leaves than the ordinary Garden Thyme, is not recurved at the margins, and ranks as a variety of T. serpyllum, the Wild Thyme.

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Astrology:

It purges the body of phlegm, and is an excellent remedy for shortness of breath. It kills worms in the belly, and being a notable herb of Venus, provokes the terms, gives safe and speedy delivery to women in travail, and brings away the after birth. It is so harmless you need not fear the use of it. ^{Nicholas Culpeper}

Folklore, Myths and Legends

Greeks Romans
	The ancient Greeks burned thyme in their temples for consecration and purification, but also as an offering to the gods. It was especially sacred to Adephaghia, the Greek goddess of food and good eating.

Medieval Europe/Celts

Wild thyme was sacred to Freyja (Freya), a Norse pagan goddess, and was placed in the pillows of the sickbed.

Claudia Muller-Ebeling, Wolf-Deieter Storl, Witchcraft Medicine (1998)

According to legend, any place where thyme grows wild is a place blessed by the fairies. Modern pagans use thyme as a smudging herb to purify the space used for a magical ritual. Wear sprig of thyme in your hair to make yourself irresistible. A pillow stuffed with thyme dispels nightmares and promotes safe, positive dreams.

References:

(1)Tillford, "Herbs for Pets", 221-222

Quick Tips
You can wash and disinfect a wound with thyme tea or with a cup of warm water containing 3 to 5 drops of the essential oil

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