Thyme is often called, and rightly so, a cure-all. Due to its rich essential oil content, it has expectorant, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, carminative, and analgesic effects.
It is used as a disinfectant for chronic bronchitis, whooping cough, bronchial asthma, dry and spastic cough, and lung diseases.
It also has a beneficial effect on chronic gastritis and stomach ulcers, colic, diarrhea, putrefactive processes, intestinal parasites. It is ideal for calming nervous excitement, insomnia, headaches, and anemia.
It can be used as a gargle for toothache and inflammation of the oral mucosa.
Baths with thyme decoction are effective for joint and neuromuscular diseases, radiculitis, neuritis, myositis.
Thyme has an antiseptic effect and helps against any skin inflammation.
It opens the pores and regulates the activity of the sebaceous glands. Baths with thyme have a calming effect on the nervous system, treat respiratory diseases. Thyme has a disinfecting and deodorizing effect.
Do not use if intestinal obstruction is suspected, by pregnant or breastfeeding women, or simultaneously with cardiotonics and agents that stimulate gastric secretion.