Thyme

General description
History
Applications
Chemical properties
Precautions
Culinary
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Thymus vulgaris is an aromatic, always green lasting, bushy half bush. The plant becomes 20 until 30 centimetres high. Thymus vulgaris is also called Real Thyme. The stems of the plant is square, green brown and wooded in the second season.

At the old wooded plant part appeared each spring new green rising branches with small sharp, oval and means green leaves. The leaves are at the edge to under closed curled and are hairy at the underside white vilty.

At the top the branches appeared of beginning till mid summer small lilac, lip form flowers that pull much by.
Of origin, Thymus vulgaris comes from the territory around the Mediterranean Sea.

The in our country growing Thymus serpyllum remains lower than the Thymus vulgaris, it becomes 8 till 20 cm high. The plant is found on sunny grass plains, heath sometimes and graze. It is a fast creeping plant with light purple flowers with generous fragrant leaves. Thymus serpyllum (also called Thymus praecox arcticus) is also called Wild Thyme. These plant vary very strong and comes in many forms for.

Self Thyme cultivate.
Thyme grows it gladly on a sunny spot in a sandy, lime realm and good drained found (by preference alkaline). In very cold regions he asks in the winter only protection.
Increase can through stem cutting to take of 5 until 8 cm with a "heel". This can have on each moment except of in the winter. Split up the roots or lay outs in the fall or in the spring.
Sow can in the spring.
Thyme to cultivate must he in the summer thinned out or replanted become on 23 until 28 cm distance. Thyme can be cultivated also indoors.

Thymus descends probably from the Greek word for disinfect, presumably through the use of it as an incense and disinfecting substance. There becomes also well maintained that it originating is by the Greek thumus, that means "courage" and many traditions grab back on this quality. Roman soldiers bathed becoming for instance in thyme there more powerfully from. The English embroidered in the Middle Ages a thyme branch on symbols that at knights were given to increase their courage in the fight. A soup recipe from 1663 mentioned to defeat the use of thyme and beer embarrassment, while Scottish Highland tea was drunk that made of wild thyme, round there power and courage from to draw and to prevent nightmares.

The powerful antiseptic and preserving qualities of thyme were also known at the Egyptians; they used the herb by the perfuming. It is still an ingredient of balm liquid and also becomes used by the preserving of anatomical preparations. Thyme protects paper against moulds. Twigs were stuck in smellers and kept by the nobility to protect self against illnesses and stench.

Thyme is the first herb quoted on the list of Holy Herb Charm, in the Middle Ages sleepiness, and also the furrow in a delightful recipe comes to see" to put from 1600 "someone in state the eleven.

Thyme has inspired jumble poets, of Virgilius to Kipling, that wrote over "thyme that smells of dawn in the paradise". Its smell is particular strengthen on the poor sunny slopes of the Mediterranean Sea lands. For the Greeks meant thyme of graceful elegance: "To thyme, a stylish compliment had to smell". After bathing, the Greeks used thyme oil by their massages.
The Romans used to give Thyme taste at cheese and liqueur. The honey of by that self feed with Thyme was praised. These days Thyme is used as kitchen herb. The herbalist Culpeper praised Thyme as restorative means for the lungs; according to him existed there better no remedy for the childhood disease that whooping cough are named. Thyme becomes already since ever times for medical goals uses. Thyme was brought by the monks from Italy via Germany to the Netherlands and England.

Thyme was of the herb of the activity in the symbolic language of the flowers and courage. This was because the busy visit of many bees butterflies and beetles that the thyme got during the bloom. The ladies from that time had always a careful flowers bouquet full symbolism with themselves, if they went an evening out. In that flowers bouquet became always a branch of thyme stuck. During the holding of the bouquet the thyme branch warmed on saw to that about it a lovely smell the ladies away floated.

The harvesting of thyme can leaf to pick through the summer. These are the best when Thyme in blooming. These to keep the leaves can be dried or thyme vinegar or thyme oil can be made.

Keep house.
Thyme vinegar is a good disinfecting substance and toilet cleaner.
Potatoes are with thyme better maintainable. From investigation is appeared that thyme just works good against moulds as much chemical means.


Cosmetic.
To stimulate the blood circulation make a decoction. To use in bath, faces steam bath and put ointment on against all sorts of spots.
An extract together with rosemary as hair spool means to get away rose.
The ethereal oil becomes uses as antiseptic means in toothpastes and mouth water.


Medicinal.
Wild Thyme, Thymus Serpyllum has the strongest medicinal properties, although each thyme become uses can.

Working and character.
Antiseptic, mould defence, slime dissolving, cramp defence, bronchi widening, adstringerend.

Application.
Thyme can uses become against tomcats and to promotion of the digestion. Before an extract make and use these as a tea. The extract can become kiss with honey against fits of coughing, cold and throat pain. Before you can make also Thyme syrup. Thyme stands has known as a slime dissolving means only also a powerful anti-bacterial and mould defence working.
An extract use in oil by a massage against headache.
It helps also by insomnia, bad blood circulation and muscle pain. Thyme stimulates also the production of white blood cells and strengthens so the defence system and works disinfected by infections at airways, urine road and the skin.
Thyme activates the fat burning, discharges the mucus in the airways on and is good by cold and bronchitis. By cold, the drinking of thyme tea a beneficial working has. By headache and cold is the well to steam above a bowl boiling water true thyme has been added.

External.
By foot mould and other mould infections
By spruw

Internal.
Thyme is possibly the best antiseptic herb by throat pain, lit gums, bowel and worm infections.
By coughs and cold on the breast. With name good by whooping cough and dry cough.
With bladder inflammation and bed watering through children.
By indigestion, flatulence and colic’s.

House means.
Tea: 1 teaspoon per head boiling water. Drink three heads per day (more by acute infections). Deeply breath in the steam. Join by throat pain and cough what honey to.
Use the tea as a mouth spool means or dilute a teaspoon tincture together half head water.

Thyme vinegar, in 1:3 dilution with water, can become uses by spruw and vaginal infections as spool means, and also as a gurgle drink.

Take oil-extract or diluted ethereal thyme oil (50 drops on 50 ml olive oil) of the nights as rub substance on the breast with violent cough attack. Also one is good ointment against rheumatism. Single drops ethereal oil in hot water are good as inhale, to steam.

For foot mould, a powder make to mix through 5 ml thyme oil with 1 dl baby powder.



Applications with ethereal oil.
Thyme oil do never burns gather on the skin, thus customs. The oil is won by water vapour distillate under low pressure by the blossoming plants. The oil has a spicy almost stinging smell.
Thyme can o. a. uses become by: abscesses, bruises, blue spots, eczema, scabies, gums infections, arthritis, warts, unclean skin, flu, bronchitis, being stuck cough, rheumatic complaints, muscle pain, joints pain, hair outburst, (over) tiredness, cellulites, oedema, strains, sport injuries, diarrhoea, infections at the urine road, cold, infectious disease, headache, low blood pressure and fight of Candidacies. Can also lighting bring by childhood diseases as bump and whooping cough.

Here single applications of the ethereal oil of Thyme follow.

By unclean skin.
3-5 drops Thyme mix with 50 ml. Jojoba-oil, with this, treat the skin 2x a day.

By being stuck cough.
3-5 drops Thyme in a scale want to do water and steam 1-2x per day.

By rheumatic complaints, muscle and joints pain.
25 drops Thyme in a tablespoon Notes want to mix and massage with this the painful places.

Evaporate.
6-8 drops Thyme in the aroma lamp drive away fear and depressions.

In the plant present compounds.
Caffeic acid, Flavonoids (Apigenin, Luteolin, Naringenin, Thymonine), Iron, Labiatin acids , tan-bark matter, bitters matter ( Serpylline) Ethereal oil.

Active components in the Ethereal oil.
Monoterpenoids
weak percentage
1,8-cineol, a-pinene, borneol, carvacrol, geraniol, para-cymene, thymol, thymol methyl ether

Monoterpenoloids
linalool 60-80%, terpine-1-ol-4

Terpenic esters
bornyl-acetate, linalyl-acetate, variable percentage

Avoided large quantities during the pregnancy. Normal quantities in the food can no wrong. Wild thyme can arouse the menstruation and may become uses not during the pregnancy.
The most ethereal oils cannot be taken in without risk.
Use ethereal exclusive internal oil has as you sufficient knowledge or consult a (homeopathic) physician. Over the general is however the working by external use more strongly than by internal use. The ethereal oil can cause skin irritation.

Leaf of Real thyme (Thymus vulgaris)
Mix thyme with parsley and laurel in a bouquet garni. You can add this at broth, marinades, stuffing’s, sauces and soups. Use fresh thyme careful because the extra spicy is. It promotes the digestion of fat food. Thyme most level good by food that slowly in wine are boiled. It gives Benedictine liqueur its taste. Thyme tastes also delightfully in brown sauces, game courts and legume fruits.

Leaf of lemon thyme
This variant of thyme is good to use with fish, warm vegetables, fruit salads and jams.

Leaf of Thymus herba-barona
Customs this variant beef on taste to bring.

There much different variants of thyme in different colours and different smells are sore.

Thymus caespititius (Thymus azoricus)
Crawl plant with pink flowers and narrow to pine fragrant green leaves. Height 5 cm.

Thymus doerfleri
Creeping plant with light purple flowers and grey leaves, narrower and closer to each other hanging clusters. Height 6 cm.

Thymus herba-barona
Furrow projection small bush with pink flowers, bent branches and to caraway smelling, dark green leaves. Height 10 cm.

Thymus pallasianus (Thymus odoratissimus)
Bush with pink flowers, weak branches and citrus like leaf. Height 20 cm.

Thymus pseudolanuginosus (Thymus lanuginosus)
Crawl plant with pink flower and quite hairy, grey leaves. Height 8 cm.

Thymus vulgaris "fragrantissimus"
Bush with light lilac flowers and sweet, fruity, bluish grey leaves. Height 38 cm.

Thymus x citriodorus "silver lemon queen"
Bush with light pink flowers, narrow, sweetly to lemon fragrant green leaves. Height 5 cm.

Thymus x xitriodorus
Bush with dull lilac flowers and to lemon fragrant clear green leaf. Height 30 cm.

Thymus praecox arcticus "aureus"
Pink-purple like flowers with golden leaves that paler become by insufficient sun. Height 10 cm.

Thymus praecox arcticus "citriodorus"
Crawl plant with pink flowers and large strongly to lemon smelling green leaves. Height 15 cm.

Thymus praecox arcticus "coccineus"
Crawl plant with bright red flowers and small, light smell green leaves. Height 8 cm.

Thymus praecox arcticus "doone valley"
Crawl plant with dull purple flowers and to lemon fragrant clear green leaf with golden spots. Height 8 cm.

Thymus praecox arcticus "lemon curd"
Crawl plant with pink flowers, long entwined branches and narrow, notwithstanding that lemon fragrant green leaves.

Thymus praecox arcticus "minus"
Creeping plants with pink flowers and small means green leaf. Height 5 cm.

Thymus praecox arcticus "snowdrift" ("Albus")
Creeping thyme with white flowers and small, faintly fragrant clear green leaf. Height 8 cm.

Thymus pulegioide
Bush like bush with light purple-pink flowers and strongly tasting leaves, that larger and redder are then the usual thyme kinds. Height 38 cm.

Thymus richardii (Thymus nitidus)
Beautiful bushes with light lilac flowers and narrow clear green leaf. Height 15 cm. Thymus Carnosus has white flowers.

Thymus vulgaris "silver posie"
Bush with light pink till lilac flowers and green leaves with silver edges. Height 38 cm.


A Thyme bed with different variants of thyme

Here a number stand impress of plates / photographs / of Thyme.

Literature

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