Thymus serpyllium L. benefit.

 That herb reminding in a famous Cannon of science ,where  by Avicenna ability adding as against abscess , necrosis, urination, killing lices, bites of bees helping, and against headaches.     Herb blooming on June-July, fruits are ripping  on August-September. Enjoying growing on the stone hills slopes, opened sandy soils, dried pine forests, steppe zone.

A close herb as Marshall s thyme, also using in medicine practise, leafs, flowers  having essential oil till one perc, which doing a very aromatic herb .In,  essential oil entering other connecting as antibacterial effects having. In leafs are having Ursolic    and oleic  acid, flavonoids, tannins, , bitter and other substances, thus in medicine thyme herb or preparations of thyme using as expectorant, disinfecting as in dry, spastic cough, whooping cough, bronchitis, asthma bronchial, inflamed lungs. Also prescribing in gastritis, stomach and bowel ulcers, indigestion, meteorism, appetite lost.

  As for medical goals, herb preparing is on the blooming time. As by knife taking a care a not wooded parts of leafy twigs, that not taking herb with root. As for cooking infusion use 2 tbl.sp. of chopped mass in enamel dish in glass of hot water, close lid and warm on boiled bath for 15 min, infuse, at room, cool, within 45 min, filter, press, add boiled water till a full glass. Use 1/3 glass for 3 times/day by small gulps, or gargle mouth, throat in aches, inflammatory. In nerve diseases, rheumatism prescribing baths with thyme infusion as of 100 gr mass add in 2 l. of hot water, cook same.

 Prepared herb drying on an opened air at places, apply by fragility layer on 5-7 cm thickness, when in tedding a mass are leafs, flowers easy separating from stems, drying is stopping, hard stems selecting and throwing out.

 By Salo, candidate of pharmacy science