Mother-of-thyme

Mother-of-thyme – a plant which advantage causes its active use as medicine.

The mother-of-thyme in Russia is called a thyme, in Ukraine – a thyme, and still this plant has one name – a materinka. The mother-of-thyme concerns to family of a mint family. It is a low long-term bush with the rod wood root and stalks spread on the ground covered with hairs. Leaves at a plant very rigid, ovoid or linearly - oblong shape. Blossoms in pink-lilac colors from June to August.

The mother-of-thyme grows in stony steppe areas, near low mountains, in the dry pine woods. The bush in the Central Russia, in the south of Ukraine, in the Caucasus, in Siberia, in Kazakhstan and, in places, in the Urals grows.

The first references of a grass Bogorodsk and its use occurs in chronicles of the third millennium B.C. Ancient Egyptians found application of a mother-of-thyme as a component as a part of means for embalming of Pharaohs, and representatives of the most ancient Sumer civilization used useful properties of a mother-of-thyme as antiseptic agent.

Many people including our ancestors, Slavs, humoured gods, burning a grass on a campfire and fumigating them with fragrant smoke. From here the name of a plant, widespread in use, not as a mother-of-thyme, and a thyme, in translation from Latin came, means a sacrifice.

Useful properties

This plant has a strong characteristic smell, it has a pleasant aroma and slightly bitterish taste. The phenolic connections which are a part, methyl-isopropyl phenol and carvacrol, create this smell.

Useful properties of a mother-of-thyme and use of this plant as medicine are caused by its rich structure. So, the following substances are a part of this plant:

• Essential oil;
• Ursulovy acid;
• Gum;
• Pitches;
• Fats;
• Oleanovy acid;
• Eugenol glycoside;
• Folic acid;
• Flavonoids;
• Tannins.

The list of vitamins B structure of a plant impresses:

• Vitamin A;
• Vitamins of group B (B1, B2, B5, B6, B3);
• Vitamin C.

Besides, as a part of this curative grass there are many micro and macrocells. There are a calcium and potassium, magnesium, sodium and phosphorus; manganese, iron and copper, and also zinc and selenium.

Caloric content of a mother-of-thyme makes 66 kcal.

Use

The mother-of-thyme (thyme, thyme) has the mass of properties, useful to health:

1. Antiseptic;

2. Bactericidal;

3. Carminative;

4. Hypertensive;

5. Vermifuge;

6. Insecticidal;

7. Cardiotonic;

8. Diuretic;

9. Expectorant;

10. Antirheumatic;

11. Spasolytic;

12. Rubtsuyushchy;

13. Stimulating periods;

14. Tonic.

In principle, all parts of a plant have advantage for health, but the most valuable raw materials are upper parts of the blossoming bush, or only leaves.

In cookery, the canning and alcoholic beverage industry use the dried-up thyme leaves.

Use of a mother-of-thyme as source of essential oil in cosmetology is eurysynusic. Useful properties of a mother-of-thyme use for production of cosmetics. And, undoubtedly, very many medicines are made using a mother-of-thyme. So, for example, the main useful properties of a mother-of-thyme use for production of such acquaintance by all of drug as Pertussinum.

Useful properties of a mother-of-thyme it is successfully applied at treatment of diseases of a respiratory organs of the person. The grass is used for inhalations. At a SARS and pains in a nasopharynx doctors recommend to do rinsings by thyme infusion. And here the useful properties of a mother-of-thyme concentrated in plant extract give excellent effect at fight against herpes and other skin diseases.

The mother-of-thyme has essential advantage at its use for recovery of sexual function. This plant serves as excellent prophylactic of prostatitis and impotence at men. In this case, outwardly use plant oil, and inside – infusion.
One more useful property of a mother-of-thyme is its influence on emotional and mental health. Useful substances of this plant tone up a nervous system. So, the grass is useful at an adynamy, a nervous depression, and also at intellectual fatigue and nervous exhaustion. Plant extract quickly eliminates symptoms of a syndrome of chronic fatigue, stimulates activity of a brain and improves memory. Recommend to drink thyme broth at a headache, irrespective of its source.
Traditional medicine applies long ago useful properties of a mother-of-thyme (a thyme or a thyme creeping), especially, analgeziruyushchy property of this plant at treatment of many diseases, namely:

• Sciatica;
• Radiculitis;
• Neuritis.

Use of a mother-of-thyme for this purpose happens as bathtubs and compresses.

Use of a mother-of-thyme with its useful properties is very effective also at such disorders of health:

• Digestion disturbance;
• Intestines swelling;
• Sleeplessness;
• Any wounds and ulcers.

Besides, important useful properties of a mother-of-thyme are its krovoochistitelny, vermifuge and diuretic effects. These properties are actively applied at treatment of the broken metabolism, at treatment of effects of intoxication. Very well the thyme at treatment of patients with alcohol addiction helps.

In cosmetology useful properties of a mother-of-thyme apply to treatment and prevention of excessive fat content of skin, an acne, and also to prevention of flabbiness of skin. Antioxidant properties of a plant often apply to fight against cellulitis. Besides, the thyme helps to fight against excess weight and serves as prevention of obesity.
Contraindications and harm from use of a mother-of-thyme

Absolute contraindications to use of a mother-of-thyme, in any kind, are the following states:

• Pregnancy and feeding by the child's breast;
• Stomach ulcer;
• Ulcer of a 12-perstny gut.