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[edit] Is this a typo?
Thyme is common in West Indian Cuisine? Does this mean Native American, or should this be East Indian? I don't think East Indian has been very common parlance since the British Empire. Should it just be Indian Cuisine?
- West Indian as in Carribean, eg Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago jimfbleak 04:40, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
[edit] History section
The history section should have the header "A Brief History of Thyme". A little joke for the reader :-)
- Good one
. But what the history section does need is some references to support the info claimed. Anyone got some details?? - MPF 12:39, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
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- It seems to be a not-word-for-word of the History section at [1] <this website, which cites several actual book sources at the bottom of it's page. And I'd just like to add that I am totally in favor of the header "A Brief History of Thyme". :D - A.J. 04:37, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
- That ext link is a rather biased commercial one, not really suitable for wiki, so I reverted it. Best to find something neutral. There's some of the info is in Huxley which I'll add as a cite, but not every detail that we have claimed. - MPF 15:01, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
- It seems to be a not-word-for-word of the History section at [1] <this website, which cites several actual book sources at the bottom of it's page. And I'd just like to add that I am totally in favor of the header "A Brief History of Thyme". :D - A.J. 04:37, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thymol in thyme
Just one small addendum which I would like to see: most (if not all) varieties of thyme (known to me) contain the (phenolic) compound thymol. It is a mild antiseptic. Here in the UK, we have a toothpaste called "Euthymol" (from the Greek word for "good", plus "thymol"), which is pink and distinctly thyme-flavoured. ("Euthymol" is a proprietary name, in this context.)
Hair Commodore 21:05, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
In the United States we have Listerine that once "killed the germs that cause bad breath...” with thymol as an active ingredient.
DOES THYME KILL E.COLI, B. SUBTILIS, or s. EPIDERMIDIS?
_______ I was wondering why isn't any medicinal use in this page. It is a greatly used in Europe for cough and phlegm in the form of syrup and teas.
[edit] Lemon thyme
Shouldn't lemon thyme be mentioned in the article? Badagnani 17:56, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
