Thyme 30g

30 g Thyme - stalk, herbal tea

Thyme can be called a cure for everything. The herb has antiseptic, antispasmodic, anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects.

- 100% natural product, produced in Bulgaria
- Thyme - dried stalks
- Delicious and healthy drink for the whole family

Thyme is a perennial herb or semi-shrub with creeping or recumbent stems and ascending flowering branches up to 20 cm tall. The flowers are pink, purple or white, gathered in inflorescences. The cups and corolla are bilobed. It blooms in June-September.

Useful properties:
Thyme can be called a cure for everything. Its flowering parts are used. Due to the rich content of essential oil it has expectorant, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic and gas-repellent action. It also has a analgesic effect.

It is used as a disinfectant for chronic bronchitis, whooping cough, bronchial asthma, dry and spastic cough, lung diseases. In addition, it has a beneficial effect on chronic gastritis and gastric ulcer, colic, diarrhea, putrefactive processes, intestinal parasites. It is ideal for calming nervous excitement, insomnia, headaches, anemia. It can be used as a gargle for toothache and inflammation of the oral mucosa.

Baths with a decoction of thyme work well for joint and neuromuscular diseases, radiculitis, neuritis, myositis.

Application of thyme:
- expectorant, bronchodilator and disinfectant for acute catarrh
- in chronic bronchitis whooping cough, bronchial asthma, dry and spastic cough
- in lung diseases
- chronic gastritis and gastric ulcer, colic of the stomach and intestines
- flatulence, diarrhea, putrefaction, intestinal parasites, gastric ulcer
- for nervous excitement, insomnia, headache, anemia
- in intestinal parasitic diseases (trichinosis, trichocephaly, hookworm disease)
- with weakened heart activity, shortness of breath, epilepsy, loss of appetite, anemia, heartburn, insomnia, diarrhea.

Thyme has an antiseptic effect and helps against any inflammation of the skin.

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 disinfectant and deodorizing effect.

Thyme compresses are suitable for oily skin. One tablespoon of dried leaves and flowers is poured 400 g of boiling water and left to soak for 10-15 minutes.

When sweating palms or feet make a decoction with a handful of thyme and half a liter of boiling water. The herb stays overnight. After straining, add alum to the tip of the knife. Melt your hands or feet repeatedly in the decoction and allow to dry.

Contents:
Thyme - stalk (Serpylli herba).

Method of preparation:
Prepare a decoction of 2 tbsp. of the herb in 500 ml. boiling water for 10 minutes. Take 3 times a day for 100 ml., 20 minutes before meals. It can be sweetened.

External use: for baths and compresses, 100 g of the herb are boiled in 2 liters of boiling water. After cooling, strain.

From Biotea, Bulgaria