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Thymus vulgaris

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 3 constituent measurements and 1 adverse-effect record for Thymus vulgaris. 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 vulgaris L.

3Constituent measurements

1Safety records

3Cited sources

677Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 677 licensed products naming Thymus vulgaris 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
Extract Type TBA
Fresh
solid

Source material stated

Aerial parts
Dried leaf
Flower
Flower buds
Flower tops
Flowering aerial part(s)
Flowering grass
Flowering herb

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Effect types

Target tissues

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
Myrcene	Unspecified	—	2.02 Percent	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Leaves	Essential oil	2.4 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Myrcene	Leaves	Essential oil	2.11 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier

Recorded adverse effects

Adverse effects reported in the source literature, most often in animal or laboratory models at a stated preparation and dose.

Effect	Target tissue	Plant part	Preparation	Test organism	Test type	Source
Hepatotoxicity	Digestive	Unspecified	Essential oil (as part-nature)	Human (as organism)	Case report	Resolve DOI

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.

Y�r�kt�men, A., Hocaoglu, N., Ersel, M., �zsara�, M., Kiyan, S. Acute hepatitis associated with Thymus Vulgaris oil ingestion: Case report. Turkiye acil tip dergisi, 2011, vol. 11, no. 2, p. 68-71. DOI
Demirel, N., Sener, O., Arslan, M., Uremis, I., Uluc, F. T., Cabuk, F. Toxicological Responses of Confused Flour Beetle, Tribolium confusum du Val (Coleoptera: Tenebrinoidea) to Various Plant Essential Oils . Asian journal of chemistry, 2009, vol. 21, no. 8, p. 6403-6410.
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

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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