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Thymus serpyllum

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 29 constituent measurements for Thymus serpyllum. 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 serpyllum L.

29Constituent measurements
0Safety records
8Cited sources
99Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

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

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 99 licensed products naming Thymus serpyllum as a medicinal ingredient, matched on the exact Latin binomial. A licence records that a product met the regulator's requirements for sale in Canada. It is not evidence that the product works.

Extract types on licence

  • Dry

Source material stated

  • Aerial parts
  • Herb
  • Herb top
  • Leaf
  • Whole fresh flowering plants collected at flowering time
  • Whole plant
  • Whole plant(s)

What the records describe

Constituents measured

  • 1,8-cineole6
  • Camphor5
  • Myrcene5
  • (+)-pulegone2
  • Thymoquinone2
  • 3,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid1
  • Alkaloids1
  • Beta-thujone1
  • Carvone1
  • Coumarins1

Plant parts

  • Aerial part of plants22
  • Unspecified6
  • Shoot1

Preparations

  • Essential oil22
  • Solvent extraction7

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.

SubstancePlant partPreparationConcentrationAnalytical methodSource
(+)-pulegoneAerial part of plantsEssential oil≥ 0.05 PercentGC-MSResolve DOI
(+)-pulegoneAerial part of plantsEssential oil≤ 6.12 PercentGC-MSResolve DOI
1,8-cineoleAerial part of plantsEssential oil≤ 14.2 PercentGaschromatography (GC)Resolve DOI
3,4-dihydroxybenzoic acidUnspecifiedSolvent extraction1.03 Milligram/gramHPLC-DADResolve DOI
Beta-thujoneAerial part of plantsEssential oil≤ 2.4 PercentGaschromatography (GC)Resolve DOI
CamphorAerial part of plantsEssential oil≤ 14.2 PercentGaschromatography (GC)Resolve DOI
CamphorAerial part of plantsEssential oil≥ 0.2 PercentGaschromatography (GC)Resolve DOI
MyrceneAerial part of plantsEssential oil≤ 20.2 PercentGaschromatography (GC)Resolve DOI
P-coumaric acidUnspecifiedSolvent extraction1.17 Milligram/gramHPLC-DADResolve DOI
ThymoquinoneAerial part of plantsSolvent extraction233 Milligram/kilogramHigh Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)Resolve DOI
1,8-cineoleShootEssential oil18 PercentGaschromatography (GC)No resolvable identifier
1,8-cineoleAerial part of plantsEssential oil≤ 18 PercentGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
1,8-cineoleAerial part of plantsEssential oil≤ 13.9 PercentGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
1,8-cineoleAerial part of plantsEssential oil≥ 8.9 PercentGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
1,8-cineoleAerial part of plantsEssential oil≥ 2.4 PercentGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
AlkaloidsUnspecifiedSolvent extraction—Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)No resolvable identifier
CamphorAerial part of plantsEssential oil≤ 7.4 PercentGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
CamphorAerial part of plantsEssential oil≤ 10.7 PercentGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
CamphorAerial part of plantsEssential oil≥ 5.2 PercentGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
CarvoneAerial part of plantsEssential oil≤ 9 PercentGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
CoumarinsUnspecifiedSolvent extraction—Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)No resolvable identifier
MyrceneAerial part of plantsEssential oil≤ 20.9 PercentGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
MyrceneAerial part of plantsEssential oil≤ 8.8 PercentGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
MyrceneAerial part of plantsEssential oil≥ 0.1 PercentGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
MyrceneAerial part of plantsEssential oil≥ 4.1 PercentGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
SafroleAerial part of plantsEssential oil≤ 1.1 PercentGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
SaponinsUnspecifiedSolvent extraction—Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)No resolvable identifier
TanninsUnspecifiedSolvent extraction—Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)No resolvable identifier
ThymoquinoneAerial part of plantsEssential oil≤ 2.6 PercentGC-MSNo 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.

  1. Aziz, Shahid., Habib-ur-Rehman., Irshad, Muhammad., Asghar, Syeda Farina., Hussain, Hidayat., Ahmed, Ishtiaq. Phytotoxic and Antifungal Activities of Essential Oils of Thymus serpyllum Grown in the State of Jammu and Kashmir . Journal of essential oil bearing plants, 2010, vol. 13, no. 2, p. 224-229.
  2. Mockute, D., Bernotiene, G. 1,8-cineole - Caryophyllene oxide chemotype of essential oil of Thymus serpyllum L. growing wild in Vilnius (Lithuania) . Journal of essential oil research, 2004, vol. 16, no. 3, p. 236-238.
  3. Sivtseva, Sardana V., Okhlopkova, Zhanna M. Phytochemical analysis of extracts of wild plants growing in Yakutia for the content of basic groups of BAS. Pharma chemica, 2015, vol. 7, no. 11, p. 334-343.
  4. Taborsky, Jan., Kunt, Miroslav., Kloucek, Pavel., Lachman, Jaromir., Zeleny, Vaclav., Kokoska, Ladislav. Identification of potential sources of thymoquinone and related compounds in Asteraceae, Cupressaceae, Lamiaceae, and Ranunculaceae families . Central european journal of chemistry, 2012, vol. 10, no. 6, p. 1899-1906. DOI
  5. Paavery, Urve., Orav, Anne., Arak, Elmar., Maeorg, Uno., Raal, Ain. Phytochemical analysis of the essential oil of Thymus serpyllum L. growing wild in Estonia . Natural product research, 2008, vol. 22, no. 2, p. 108-115. DOI
  6. Janiak, Michal A., Slavova-Kazakova, Adriana., Kancheva, Vessela D., Ivanova, Milena., Tsrunchev, Tsvetelin., Karamac, Magdalena. Effects of gamma-Irradiation of Wild Thyme (Thymus serpyllum L.) on the Phenolic Compounds Profile of Its Ethanolic Extract . Polish journal of food and nutrition sciences, 2017, vol. 67, no. 4, p. 309-315. DOI
  7. Pluhar, Z., Simko, H., Sarosi, S., Boros, B., Dornyei, A., Felinger, A., Horvath, G., Mauget, JC., Godet, S. Determination of Essential Oil and Polyphenolic Compounds in Thymus Species . Ii international symposium on horticulture in europe, 2015, vol. 1099, p. 661-670.
  8. 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

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