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Thymus citriodorus

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 11 constituent measurements for Thymus citriodorus. This page reports what those source records contain and how to reach them. It carries no effect estimate, no dose and no recommendation.

Accepted name in source: Thymus citriodorus (Pers.) Schreb.

11Constituent measurements

0Safety records

5Cited sources

0Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Thymus x citriodorus (Pers.) Schreb.

Synonyms are carried from the source compendium. A species may be traded and studied under more than one name, which is exactly how a safety record gets lost.

Regulatory presence

No Health Canada licensed natural health product in the snapshot names this species as a medicinal ingredient under this exact binomial. Absence here means absence from this one register under this one name, not absence from trade, and not a safety verdict.

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Recorded constituents

What analytical work has found in this species, at which plant part and preparation. A measured constituent is a fact about material, not about effect.

Substance	Plant part	Preparation	Concentration	Analytical method	Source
(+)-pulegone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 0.06 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
(+)-pulegone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 2.21 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Unspecified	Essential oil	1.14 Percent	GC-FID-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	2.9 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Camphor	Unspecified	Essential oil	1.07 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 1.57 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 0.33 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
(-)-camphor	Aerial part of plants	—	≥ 0.5 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
(-)-camphor	Aerial part of plants	—	≤ 2.6 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	—	≤ 5.5 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	—	≥ 4.6 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier

Cited sources

The literature the compendium cites for this species. Metatron Health has no relationship with these authors or journals and earns nothing from citing them.

De Lisi, Antonino., Tedone, Luigi., Montesano, Vincenzo., Sarli, Giulio., Negro, Donatella. Chemical characterisation of Thymus populations belonging from Southern Italy . Food chemistry, 2011, vol. 125, no. 4, p. 1284-1286. DOI
ZANI, F., MASSIMO, G., BENVENUTI, S., BIANCHI, A., ALBASINI, A., MELEGARI, M., VAMPA, G., BELLOTTI, A., MAZZA, P. STUDIES ON THE GENOTOXIC PROPERTIES OF ESSENTIAL OILS WITH BACILLUS-SUBTILIS REC-ASSAY AND SALMONELLA MICROSOME REVERSION ASSAY. PLANTA MEDICA, 1991, vol. 57, no. 3, p. 237-241. DOI
Bertoli, Alessandra., Sarosi, Szilvia., Bernath, Jeno., Pistelli, Luisa. Characterization of Some Italian Ornamental Thyme by Their Aroma. Natural product communications, 2010, vol. 5, no. 2, p. 291-296.
Duman, Erman., Ozcan, Mehmet Musa. The Chemical Composition of Achillea wilhelmsii, Leucanthemum vulgare and Thymus citriodorus Essential Oils . Journal of essential oil bearing plants, 2017, vol. 20, no. 5, p. 1310-1319. DOI
Horvath, Gyoergyi., Szabo, Laszlo Gy., Hethelyi, Eva., Lemberkovics, Eva. Essential oil composition of three cultivated Thymus chenotypes from Hungary . Journal of essential oil research, 2006, vol. 18, no. 3, p. 315-317. DOI

Boundary

A constituent measurement is a fact about material at a stated preparation, not a statement about what that material does in a person. An adverse-effect or genotoxicity record is an observation reported in a source, most often in an animal or laboratory model. Neither is a Metatron Health conclusion about causality, human risk or benefit, and the absence of a record is not proof that a preparation is safe. Nothing here is diagnosis, prescribing or individual medical care.

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