WHAT IS THE POWER OF WILD THYME
Thyme is so powerful that countries like Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Italy and Greece use it to disinfect water. Some people boil their drinking supply of water or cook their food with some thyme in it to prevent poisoning, to remove toxins and pollutants. This potent herb is an antiseptic that destroys microbes on contact. An excellent advocate for treating diarrhea and stomach disorders, while benefitting and helping restore good bacteria in our gut area. Thyme is so very powerfully useful in boosting the immune system, especially in respiratory system area as though it was lovingly made for job the job of clearing infections in the places of the body's digestive, respiratory and genitourinary tracts from candida, colds, coughs, cystitis, asthma, colic, spastic colon, diarrhea, UTIs, and irritable bowel syndrome.
01/15/13 Thyme is actually a member of the mint family and has been used throughout history as a medicinal herb. Thyme is absolutely the best herb for cough and cold remedy. Thyme addresses cold symptoms by acting as an expectorant (to clear the lungs of congestion) and as an antitussive (calming coughing spasms). Thyme tea settles the stomach, helps sleep, soothes the throat, relieve aches and pains, and also encourages the body to sweat and eliminate toxins to bring a fever down. Thyme oils can be used in room diffusers and thyme can even be used to treat cuts and wounds and actually treats and prevents infections when used in a poultice.
This beautiful powerful plant is a gift from mother nature, our earth. Many people around the world use some thyme oil mixed with olive oil by rubbing the area of issue has done the trick to rid the body of enemy agents like bad viruses, bacteria, fungus, mold, yeast, parasites, candida, athlete's foot, ringworms, and so much more because thyme is a strong killer against enemies of the body.
11/14/13 Thyme contains the compounds of phenol, thymol and carvacrol - which have antispasmodic, antitussive (preventing and treating a cough), and expectorant (thinning the mucus to allow for coughing out) actions. Thyme is perfect for treating dry spasmodic coughs, and due to its stellar safety record, is a favorite for treating coughs in children. Thyme has no known adverse drug interactions and is extremely well tolerated as a natural adjunct with no side effects of conventional or over-the-counter medications. Choose thyme extract to fight your next cold, sore throat, bronchitis or upper respiratory congestion. A few drops of extract or essential oil of thyme is all it takes two or three times a day. Capsule forms work very well also.
Thyme do not only regulates the menstrual cycle but it aide in the removal of contagious sexual transmited diseases from sexual organs, calms the nervous system down leaving the body in a good mood while priming our immune system. Amazing Amazing Amazing. If relieves sore throat by chewing on the leaves. Its outstanding powers do not stop there, it is also used on children and adults to expel worms from the stomach and digestive system. This essential oil is used externally on the skin to treat wounds, cuts, rash, acne, wrinkles, arthritis, rheumatism, sciatica gout, and more by applying it to painful or irritated area of concern of the body. Fresh tea can be made with a drop or two of oil from this plant, fresh or dried herb can be added to your food, powder can be added to water or a smoothie, or even better just eat the leaves and flower off the plant.
Thymus vulgaris, also known as Wild Thyme, Garden Thyme or Thyme Green.
01/15/13 Thyme is actually a member of the mint family and has been used throughout history as a medicinal herb. Thyme is absolutely the best herb for cough and cold remedy. Thyme addresses cold symptoms by acting as an expectorant (to clear the lungs of congestion) and as an antitussive (calming coughing spasms). Thyme tea settles the stomach, helps sleep, soothes the throat, relieve aches and pains, and also encourages the body to sweat and eliminate toxins to bring a fever down. Thyme oils can be used in room diffusers and thyme can even be used to treat cuts and wounds and actually treats and prevents infections when used in a poultice.
11/14/13 Thyme contains the compounds of phenol, thymol and carvacrol - which have antispasmodic, antitussive (preventing and treating a cough), and expectorant (thinning the mucus to allow for coughing out) actions. Thyme is perfect for treating dry spasmodic coughs, and due to its stellar safety record, is a favorite for treating coughs in children. Thyme has no known adverse drug interactions and is extremely well tolerated as a natural adjunct with no side effects of conventional or over-the-counter medications. Choose thyme extract to fight your next cold, sore throat, bronchitis or upper respiratory congestion. A few drops of extract or essential oil of thyme is all it takes two or three times a day. Capsule forms work very well also.
Thyme do not only regulates the menstrual cycle but it aide in the removal of contagious sexual transmited diseases from sexual organs, calms the nervous system down leaving the body in a good mood while priming our immune system. Amazing Amazing Amazing. If relieves sore throat by chewing on the leaves. Its outstanding powers do not stop there, it is also used on children and adults to expel worms from the stomach and digestive system. This essential oil is used externally on the skin to treat wounds, cuts, rash, acne, wrinkles, arthritis, rheumatism, sciatica gout, and more by applying it to painful or irritated area of concern of the body. Fresh tea can be made with a drop or two of oil from this plant, fresh or dried herb can be added to your food, powder can be added to water or a smoothie, or even better just eat the leaves and flower off the plant.
Thyme is an herb with culinary, medicinal and ornamental uses. Thyme is of the genus Thymus, the most common being Thymus vulgaris.
The flowers, leaves and oil of thyme are commonly used by people for the treatment of bedwetting, diarrhea, stomach ache, arthritis, colic, sore throat, cough (including whooping cough), bronchitis, flatulence and as a diuretic (to increase urination).
History of thyme
In Ancient Egypt thyme was used for embalming. In Ancient Greece thyme was used as an incense in temples - it was also commonly added to bathwater.
According to A Modern Herbal1, published in 1931 and written by Maud Grieve (1858-1941), the Romans, who used thyme as a cheese and alcoholic beverage flavoring, are believed to have brought it into the rest of Europe. Mrs Grieves, a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society with an encyclopedic knowledge of medicinal plants, founded The Whins Medicinal and Commercial Herb School and Farm at Chalfont St. Peter in Buckinghamshire, England.
According to Georgetown University Medical Center2, Hippocrates (circa 460BC - circa 370BC), known today as "the father of Western medicine", mentioned the prevalence of thyme as a culinary herb, grown in gardens and gathered in the countryside. In his documented Hippocratic Corpus, he mentioned thyme's therapeutic uses in treating respiratory diseases and conditions.
The potential health benefits of thyme
Thymus vulgaris, also known as Wild Thyme, Garden Thyme or Thyme Green.
The essential oil of common thyme (Thymus vulgaris) - usually referred to as "oil of thyme" - contains 20-54% thymol.
Thymol belongs to a naturally-occurring class of compounds known as "biocides" (substances that can destroy harmful organisms). When thymus is used alongside other biocides, such as carvacrol, it has strong antimicrobial attibutes.
Scientists at the University of Manitoba, Canada, wrote in the International Journal of Food Microbiology3 that thymol can reduce bacterial resistance to common drugs such as penicillin.
Below are some studies that have looked into the medical uses and potential benefits of thyme, or substances found naturally in the herb.
The tiger mosquito
The Tiger mosquito, known by entomologists as Aedes albopictus (Stegomyia albopicta), is native to tropical and subtropical areas of Southeast Asia. However, since the 1990s it has spread to many other parts of the world and is a vector for the transmission of West Nile virus, Yellow fever virus, St. Louis encephalitis, dengue fever, and Chikungunya fever.
A team at Chungbuk National University in South Korea reported in the Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association4 that a combination of thymol, alpha-terpinene, and carvacrol was effective in killing off the Tiger mosquito larvae.
High blood pressure (hypertension)
Researchers at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, reported in the journal Plant Foods for Human Nutrition5 that an aqueous extract obtained from Thymus serpyllum L. (wild thyme) reduced blood pressure in an animal experiment on laboratory rats.
As rats tend to have similar responses to humans in hypertensive situations, the team is hopeful that further human trials will confirm their findings.
In an Abstract in the journal, the study authors wrote "Our results indicate that TE may protect against hypertension in experimental model of essential hypertension."
Protecting from foodborne bacterial infections
Thyme essential oil.
A team at the Center of Studies of Animal and Veterinary Sciences in Portugal carried out a study to determine the antimicrobial activity of essential oils extracted from a range of aromatic plants, including thyme oil.
They reported in the journal Food Science and Technology International 6 that thyme oil, even at low concentrations, showed potential as a natural preservative of food products against several common foodborne bacteria that cause human illness.
A Polish study published in Medicinal Chemistry7 found that thyme oil was effective against bacterial strains ofStaphylococcus, Enterococcus, Escherichia and Pseudomonas genera.
Thyme oil was tested alongside lavender oil. The study authors wrote "Thyme oil demonstrated a good efficacy against antibiotics resistant strains of the tested bacteria. Lavender oil has been less active against clinical strains of Staphylococcus, Enterococcusand Escherichia genus."
Colon cancer
A study found that extracts of Mastic Thyne (Thymus mastichina L.) may protect from colon cancers.
The scientific team, from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal concluded in the journal Natural Product Communications8 that "The presence of these constituents identified by colon cancer cytotoxicity-guided activity indicates that extracts of Thymus mastichina L. may have a protective effect against colon cancers."
Breast cancer
Oncologist researchers at Celal Bayar University in Turkey carried out a study to determine what effect Wild Thyme (Thymus serpyllum) might have on breast cancer activity.
They were specifically looking at the effects of Wild Thyme on apoptosis (cell death) and epigenetic events in breast cancer cells. Epigenetics is the study of changes in gene expression caused by mechanisms that do not involve alterations in DNA sequence.
They reported in the journal Nutrition and Cancer9 that Wild Thyme induced cell death in the breast cancer cells.
The study authors concluded that Wild Thyme "may be a promising candidate in the development of novel therapeutic drugs for breast cancer treatment."
Yeast infection
The fungus Candida albicans is a common cause of mouth and vaginal yeast infections. Often referred to as "thrush", vaginal yeast infections are generally recurring.
Researchers at the University of Turin in Italy set out to determine what effect thyme essential oil might have on Candida albicans in the human body.
The team reported in the journal Planta Medica10 that thyme essential oil significantly enhanced intracellular killing of C. albicans.
Prolonging the stability of cooking oils
Lipid oxidation is a serious problem during food processing and storage, leading to losses of quality, stability, safety and nutritional value.
Scientists at the Institute of Agricultural and Food Biotechnology in Warsaw, Poland, carried out a study to determine whether thyme extract might prolong the stability of sunflower oil.
The team stored sunflower oils with ethanol extract of thyme at 1% level added. The oil samples were stored in darkness at 4°C, 18°C, 38°C.
The researchers concluded in the journal "Technologia Alimentaria ACTA Scientiarum Polonorum"11 that "Results show that thyme extract prolonged stability of sunflower oil and it may be a potent antioxidant for its stabilization."
Common skin problems
Dermatological (skin) problems are common in rural and urban areas of developing countries. In poorer areas of the world, traditional preparations of plant origin may be the only choice people have as an alternative to synthetic medications.
A team at the All African Leprosy and Dermatology Education and Training Center, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, carried out a two-arm, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to assess the therapeutic benefits of a 10% chamomile extract cream and a 3% thyme essential oil antifungal cream for eczema-like lesions.
The investigators reported in the International Journal of Dermatology12 that 66.5% of those treated with thyme essential oil fungal cream were completely healed, compared to 28.5% of those using placebo. There was no significant difference between the chamomile extract cream and placebo.
WILD THYME RESPIRATORY IMMUNE BOOSTERS
Thyme rebuilds the entire digestive system, nervous system and restore the liver, stimulating circulation by helping to get warmth to cold body parts to stop cold chills, and build energy levels. It eliminates chest infections for example bronchitis, cough, asthma, mental fatigue, tension, anxiety, mood swings, depression and sleeplessness. Rheumatism of stiffness and pain in joints can be treated with Thyme oil with coconut or olive oil baths and/or rubs. It is healing Thyme for your skin, liver, gallbladder, bowels, vagina, mouth, energy levels, and more!BE CAREFUL: in using the essential oil of Thyme because it is very very powerful and concentrated so must be diluted with a connector oil like coconut or olive oil. You only need one or two drops to start, mixed with some olive oil. Put it in a evaporator so you can breath it in to clear up respirator issues and clean the air of impurities. Put it in your bath water to pull out toxins. The uses are endless.
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