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Thymus Ciliatus - the Highest Thymol Containing Essential Oil of the Genus Publisher Pubmed



Kabouche A1 ; Ghannadi A2 ; Kabouche Z1
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Source: Natural Product Communications Published:2009


Abstract

The essential oil obtained by hydrodistillation of the aerial parts of Thymus ciliatus Desf. collected at Batna (Eastern Algeria) in May 2008 was investigated by GC and GC/MS. Eighteen components, representing 99.6% of the essential oil, were detected of which thymol (79.1%) and p-cymene (5.6%) were the major components.