Medicinal plants have played an essential role in the development of human culture. Medicinal plants are sources of new drugs and many new medicines are produced directly from plants by various processes. During studying medicinal plants helps to understand plant toxicity, use long with protect human and animals from natural poisons. This paper reviews studies conducted to explore the physiological and pharmacological properties of thyme plant “Thyme vulgaris”. Thymus vulgaris L. (T. vulgaris) a significant aromatic plant with around 100 species in the world is widely used for medicinal purposes as well as in culinary dishes. It is obtained from European countries, along with France, Spain, Italy, Bulgaria, Portuguese Republic and Ellas. Thymus vulgaris L. is also known as Thyme, (Pahari, Pudina, Mountain Thyme). The genus Thymus are important medicinal plants, highly recommended due to a wide variety of therapeutic properties of their essential oils, and the oil normally known as Thyme oil. The biological active components of thyme vulgaris such as flavonoids, luteolin, carvacrol, eugenol, thymol as well as aliphatic phenols, tetramethoxylated flavones and saponins that attribute to thyme pharmacological properties.
Thyme, Antidiabetic, Antitumor, Insecticidal activity, Hepatoprotective, Tincture of Thymol
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