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Thymus zygis

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 11 constituent measurements for Thymus zygis. 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 zygis L.

11Constituent measurements

0Safety records

4Cited sources

8Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 8 licensed products naming Thymus zygis 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

Source material stated

Herb top flowering

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	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	2.4 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 20 Percent	GC-FID	Resolve DOI
3,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	1.8 Millimole/kilogram	HPLC-MS/MS	Resolve DOI
4-hydroxybenzoic acid	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	2.85 Millimole/kilogram	HPLC-MS/MS	Resolve DOI
Camphor	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 3.9 Percent	GC-FID	Resolve DOI
Fenchone	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	1.35 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 2 Percent	GC-FID	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 8.5 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 10 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	1.18 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
P-coumaric acid	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	0.4 Millimole/kilogram	HPLC-MS/MS	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.

da Cunha, A.P., Salgueiro, L.R. The chemical polymorphism of Thymus zygis ssp. sylvestris from central portugal. Journal of essential oil research, 1991, vol. 3, no. 6, p. 409-412. DOI
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
Rubio, Laura., Serra, Aida., Macia, Alba., Borras, Xenia., Romero, Maria-Paz., Motilva, Maria-Jose. Validation of determination of plasma metabolites derived from thyme bioactive compounds by improved liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry . Journal of chromatography b-analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences, 2012, vol. 905, p. 75-84. DOI
G�mez, P.S., S�nchez, J.A.S., Cano, M.C.S., Castellanos, E.C., Garc�a Vallejo, M.C. Chemical composition of the essential oil of Thymus zygis ssp. Gracilis c.v. Linalool type, and its performance under cultivation. Journal of essential oil research, 1995, vol. 7, no. 4, p. 399-402. DOI

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