IINTRODUCCIÓN: Being one of the more well-known and used medicinal plants, peculiarly in old Greece almost it passed, and unlike which it happened with the parsley, his inadvertent first uses were culinarios, like aromatic grass. The Romans introduced it in the western world to fight the cough, but it was necessary to wait for until the century xl so that he was cultivated and he popularized in all Europe.
CHARACTERISTICS: We were with a bush of winding, ligneous stem, very graft, of less than 30 cm. of height, with very many leaves, sharpened, small (of less than 1 cm. in length), narrow, covers of pelusilla, white by the inferior part of the leaves. On its tiny surface, are opened to pores by which summarizes the essence. The flower, pink white or, have of chalice, with two expansions in form of lips of different size (characteristic that it gives name to the family: labiadas). It begins to bloom in spring and it does not rest until last the summer: almost half year during which the characteristic aroma of the plant is accentuated. Also one denominates tremoncilla, tremoncillo and tomello.
LOCATION: Original of the western Mediterranean river basin, at the present time one is in wild state in the lateral sunny droughts and of mountains of the eurasiático continent, from the north of China to the Arabic peninsula, reaching zones of Eastern Africa (Ethiopia).
Except for express indication, we recommended to abstain to internally prescribe essential oils during the pregnancy, the lactancia, to smaller children of six years or gastroduodenales patients with gastritis, ulcers, syndrome of the null and voidable intestine, ulcerosa colitis, neurological disease of Crohn, hepatopatías, epilepsy, Parkinson or other diseases.
Not to administer, neither to apply topically to smaller children of six years nor to people with respiratory allergies or well-known hypersensitivity to this one or other essential oils.
Not to prescribe oral forms of metering with alcoholic content to smaller children of two years nor to consultantes in process of etílica deshabituación.
Indirect effect
To have precaution with the essence: it can give rise to reactions allergic, mainly in children and, to doses elevated, convulsive phenomena. Timol, to elevated doses, can cause hepática toxicity, albuminuria and hematuria. The prolonged use of colutorios with timol, can cause tireotoxicosis.
Precaution/Poisonings
To consider the alcoholic content of the fluid extract and the dye.
Galénicas Forms/Dosage
Internal use:
- Infusion: a spoonful of dessert by cup, to instill during 10 minutes. Three cups to the day, before or after the meals.
- fluid Extract (1:1): 30-40 drops, 3 times to the day.
- It tinctures (1:5): 50-100 drops, one to three times to the day.
- essential Oil: 1 to 5 drops or 25-50 mg/cápsula, three times to the day, after the meals.
External use:
- Decocción: 50 g/l, to boil 3 minutes, to apply in form of compresas, óticas or nasal lotions, baths, colutorios, garglings, instilaciones, vaginal irrigations, etc.
- Alcoholaturo (alcohol 50-60º), in form of frictions and hair massages.
- general Bath: to prepare a decocción of 500 thyme g, in 4 liters of water. To add to the water, bién warms up, of the bath. Employee in dermatológicas, respiratory and rheumatic affections.
- Pomadas, creams, gels, liniments: like revulsivo in rheumatic affections, respiratory, or dermatológicas.
- Oleate: applied in form of óticas instilaciones.
ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: The essence of the thyme is distributed by all the parts of the planet, mainly in flowers and leaves; it has two very energetic substances farmacológicamente: timol and carvacrol. In addition, are tannins, oils and glucósido.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: It stimulates the systems circulatory and nervous, it reactivates the musculatura after a effort (ideal for the recovery of the sportsmen). It facilitates the digestion and the elimination of tinkles. Timol has antiseptic, antispasmodic properties (regulates the intestinal movements) and vermifugal (it eliminates the worms of the alimentary canal). Carvacrol is an antiseptic that Time applications in the cosmetic industry.
HARVESTING: Any time is good while the plant is in flower. The carrying branches of flowers stand out with scissors (not to destroy the plant). They must be let dry in a ventilated place; soon the small branches in fiasco closed shelter hermetically from the light and the humidity keep.
USES And APPLICATIONS: The form more adapted to take advantage of its virtues is the infusion: two or three small branches by water cup after the meals exert a digestive action. Seizure in uninformed during several followed days eliminates the intestinal parasites. Wetting a gauze and applying it in hurt it disinfects them, like it alleviates the ocular conjuntivitis. Form leaves from bouquet garni, ramillete constituted by thyme, oregano, parsley and laurel that adds themselves to stews to perfume them. The thyme soup is a first plate of pleasant flavor and that helps to digest the second.
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