Medicine
highKing's treats thyme as a distilled volatile oil from the leaves and flowering tops of Thymus vulgaris, with storage instructions for light and heat protection.
Found in the Hermetikon archive
Thyme
Thymus vulgaris
Thyme appears in Hermetikon as an archive-backed plant entry, with references across historical medical, magical, symbolic, and ritual contexts where the source texts support them.
- Risk
- low concern
- Books
- 28
- Contexts
- 3
- Mentions
- 144
Archive Profile
Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.
Herb identity
- Common name
- thyme
- Latin name
- Thymus vulgaris(candidate)
Safety
low concern
Culinary use is generally low concern; concentrated oil can irritate.
Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.
- EMA HMPC: Culinary use is generally low concern; concentrated oil can irritate.
Aliases
thymegarden-thymeThymus vulgaris
Thyme in Historical Sources
Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.
Hermetikon's curated reading of Thyme (Thymus vulgaris) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 2 preparation or ritual-use entries. The strongest recurring contexts are medicine, ritual uses, and astrology. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.
Astrology
highAgrippa lists thyme among Venus materials with sweet perfumes, fruits, and love-associated animals, giving the herb a Venusian ritual scent profile.
Ritual
highFrazer records Bohemian use of wild thyme gathered on Midsummer Day to fumigate trees on Christmas Eve so they may grow well.
The Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1890
§ 2.—Balder.
Preparations and ritual uses
Distilled oil
highKing's defines oil of thyme as volatile oil distilled from the leaves and flowering tops of Thymus vulgaris.
Fumigation
highFrazer records wild thyme gathered on Midsummer Day and used to fumigate trees on Christmas Eve for growth.
The Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1890
§ 2.—Balder.
Thyme Archive Contexts
Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.
Astrology
4 passages across 4 books; strongest source: Illustration of the Occult Sciences.
Matched as thyme; high confidence.
Preparation
7 passages across 7 books; strongest source: A Book of Myths.
Matched as thyme; high confidence.
Ritual
2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: The Golden Bough.
Matched as thyme; high confidence.
Thyme Cited Excerpts
Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper
1653
"...handful, French Barley, the seed of Annis, and bastard Saffron, Polypodium of the Oak, of each five drams, Maiden-hair, Thyme, Epithimum, of each half a handful, Raisins of the Sun stoned half an ounce, sweet Fennel seeds two drams, the seeds of Purslain, and Mallows, of each three drams, Liquorice half an ounce, boil them in a sufficient quantity of water, strain them and dissolve in the decoction, pulp of Cassia two pounds, of Tamarinds an ounce, Cinnamon three drams, Sugar a pound, boil it into the form of an electuary. #### *Cassia extracta cum soliis Sen..."
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Preparationalias: thymehigh confidence
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter
1854
"... of palmitic acid. The oil is obtained in tropical Africa by boiling the seeds in water. OLEUM THYMI (U. S. P.)— OIL OF THYME. "A volatile oil distilled from the leaves and dowering tops of Thymus vulgaris, Linne (Xnt. Ord. — Labiatie). It should be kept in well-stoppered bottles, in a cool place, protected from the light" — (('. S. P.). Preparation. — This oil is chiefly obtained in southern France, where the plant grows in immense quantity-. Spain also produces oil of thyme, although this is of somewhat diflerent physical and chemical characters. The"
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Preparationalias: thymehigh confidence
The Family Herbal
John Hill
1755
"... the menses: the powder of the tops is best given for this purpose in red wine, a scruple for a dose. ### SYRIAN MASTIC THYME. *Marum Syriacum.* A BEAUTIFUL little plant, native of the warm countries, but not unfrequent in our gardens. It grows a foot high. The stalks are brittle, slender, and whitish. The leaves stand two at each joint: they are small, in shape very like those of thyme, and of a pale green colour on the upper side, and white and hoary underneath. The flowers are small and red: they grow in a kind of little spikes, or oblong clusters at the t..."
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Preparationalias: thymehigh confidence
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer
1890
"...ake themselves invulnerable by means of fir-cones gathered before sunrise on St. John's Day. 773 Again, in Bohemia wild thyme gathered on Midsummer Day is used to fumigate the trees on Christmas Eve, in order that they may grow well. 774 In Germany and Bohemia a plant called St. John's Flower or St. John's Blood ( Hieracium pilosella ) is gathered on Midsummer Eve. It should be rooted up with a gold coin. The plant is supposed to bring luck and to be especially good for sick cattle. 775 These facts by themselves would suffice to raise a strong presumption tha..."
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Astrologyalias: thymehigh confidence
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
1533
"PHILOSOPHY OP NATURAL MAGIC. 103 thyme, the gum ladanum, amber-gris, sanders or red sandal-wood, coriander, and all sweet perfumes; and delightful and sweet fruits, as sweet pears, figs, pomegranates, which, the poets say, were, in Cyprus, first sown by Venus. Also the Rose of Lucifer was dedicated to her; also the Myrtle-tree of Hesperus. Moreover, all luxurious, delicious animals, and of a strong love, as dogs, conies, odorous sheep and goats, both female and male, which ..."
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Astrologyalias: thymehigh confidence
Books Mentioning Thyme
Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper | 1653
thymegarden-thyme
39 mentionscited
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854
thyme
35 mentionscited
Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton | 1621
thyme
15 mentions
The Family Herbal
John Hill | 1755
thyme
9 mentionscited
Illustration of the Occult Sciences
Ebenezer Sibly | 1784
thyme
5 mentions
Young Folks' Treasury Vol. 2
Hamilton Wright Mabie (ed.) | 1909
thyme
4 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1890
thyme
2 mentionscited
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1913
thyme
2 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1890
thyme
2 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1913
thyme
2 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1912
thyme
2 mentions
A Book of Myths
Andrew Lang | 1889
thyme
2 mentions
Pow-Wows
John George Hohman | 1820
thyme
2 mentions
Balder the Beautiful, Volume I
James George Frazer | 1913
thyme
2 mentions
British Goblins
Wirt Sikes | 1880
thyme
2 mentions
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1913
thyme
2 mentions
On the Cave of the Nymphs
Porphyry | 270
thyme
2 mentions
The Complete Book of Fortune
Anonymous | 1930
thyme
2 mentions
Metamorphoses (Books VIII-XV)
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) | 8
thyme
2 mentions
Christian Astrology
William Lilly | 1647
thyme
2 mentions
Encyclopaedia of Antiquities
Thomas Dudley Fosbroke | 1825
thyme
2 mentions
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim | 1533
thyme
1 mentioncited
Liber 777
Aleister Crowley | 1909
thyme
1 mention
Book of Black Magic
Arthur Edward Waite | 1898
thyme
1 mention
The Mathnawi, Vol. 2
R. A. Nicholson | 1926
thyme
1 mention
The Mathnawi
R. A. Nicholson | 1925
thyme
1 mention
Heathen Mythology
Anonymous | 1842
thyme
1 mention
Manual of Astrology
Raphael (Robert Cross Smith) | 1828
thyme
1 mention