Common Thyme
garden thyme: greek, meaning" to fumigate"
also from
grk. culture "thumus" meaning courage
T serpyllum (wild, or lemon Thyme)
Running Thyme
Mother of Thyme
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Smelling of
thyme expressed praise (Lady Northcote).
An emblem of activity,
bravery and energy.
Ladies embroidered a bee over thyme sprigs on
scarves for knights.
* Similar historic use for uterine
discomfort as of Motherwort.
Used by Romans for an aromatic
flavour in cheese.
(Pliny) - When burnt, it put venomous creatures to flight!
Essential Oil, Carvacrol is produced commercially as a snake repellant.
Uses sourced from "A Modern Herbal",
Grieves.
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Essential Oils (to 2.5 %)
the phenols thymol*(to 40%)
and carvacrol (an isomeric phenol)
borneol
cymene
linalol
l-pinene
bornyl-acetate
acid and neutral saponins
thiamine
ursolic acid
caffeic acid
tannins
menthone
bitter compounds
other active
components.
* Thymol is methyl-propyl-phenol
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Antiseptic
carminative
vermifuge
rubefascient
beneficial in gastrointestinal complaints and respiratory ailments
antihelmintic (destroys hookworm)
cosmetics
commercial flavouring
Thyme
produces red (crude distillate) and white oils (rectified of red nature through
distillation)
antispasmodic:
1 oz to 1 pint of tea for sore throat (add
honey).
kitchen herb
Used in a formula for herb Tobacco for digestion, headache,
drowsiness.
Embalming (Essence of Thyme)
treated with caustic
potash, it yields iodo- thymol, known as "Aristol"
perfumes
sachets
meat preservative
deodorant
local
anaesthetic resembling carbiolic acid
paint for ringworm
psoriasis
eczema
broken chilblains
parasitic skin affections
and burns
ointment with lavender to fend off mosquitos
Thymol
in oily solution for nasal catarrh
inhalant for bronchial
infection
in capsule as vermifuge (Adults only)
whooping cough
laryngitis
against septic sore throat espec. during scarlet
fever.
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