Updated 29 January 2024
Botanical characteristics
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- Order: Lamiales
- Family: Lamiaceae
- Genus: Thymus
- Part used: Flowering tops
- Country of origin: France
Precautions for use
Very mild, thyme essential oil with thujanol is well tolerated by all except pregnant women and infants under 3 months of age.
All routes of administration are permitted, but the most favourable uses are oral and dermal.
Diffusion is rather unpleasant.
Other precautions
Cutaneous use:
- This essential oil can be used pure. For children under the age of 6, a dilution of 20% is recommended before application to the skin.
Ingestion:
- Children under the age of 3 should not take this essential oil.
Allergenic components:
Thyme essential oil with thujanol contains biochemical allergenic components:
- linalool ( 30%)
- limonene (≤ 6%)
- geraniol (≤ 3%)
- citral (geranial + neral) (≤ 2%)
Note: It is best to test the essential oil before use (two drops on the crease of the elbow for at least 24 hours to check for a reaction).
Authorised users
How to use
Risks of use
Properties
- Viricide
- Bactericide
- Fungicide
- Immunostimulant
- General tonic
- Stimulates and regenerates hepatic cells
- Activates blood circulation, warms and tones capillaries
- Antidiabetic
- Paediatric EO
Indications
- Raynaud's syndrome
- Pharyngitis
- Angina
- Sore throat
- Bronchitis
- Asthenia
- Fatigue
- Flu
- Otitis
- Rhinitis
- Sinusitis
- Cystitis
- Mycosis
- Dull hair
- Canker sores
- Herpes
- Gingivitis
- Stomatitis
- Enterocolitis
- Liver failure
- Cirrhosis
- Hepatitis
- Cystitis
- Vulvitis
- Vaginitis
- Condyloma venereum
- Uretritis
- Genital herpes
- Chlamydia
- Dermatitis
- Wound
- Baby blues
- Depression
- Nervous disorders
- Diabetes (adjuvant)
Directions for use/usual dosage
- Angina: 2 drops on a lump of sugar or a neutral tablet to melt in the mouth 3 times a day, and 2 drops of EO externally on the tonsils.
- Angina or other ENT infections in babies and young children: effective rectally in synergy with other essential oils.
- Liver congestion or insufficiency: taken orally in combination with other appropriate essential oils.
- Fungal infections, mouth infections, cold extremities: apply purely topically in synergy with other essential oils.