Thyme will cleanse the skin, help heal the throat, and replace salt in the kitchen

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Tea with thyme can often be seen on store shelves. People buy it because of its amazing aroma, but this plant is also a well of vitamins and helps with some skin and lung diseases.

Thyme, or creeping thyme, is an unpretentious plant that is used both as a decoration of garden plots and in folk medicine. The beneficial effect of thyme on the human body has been known for a long time, but no official research has yet been conducted on this matter.

The most common use of this aromatic small-leaved plant is tea. It warms, relieves cough, relieves colds, relieves muscle pain. People suffering from rheumatoid arthritis have successfully used thyme as compresses to relieve symptoms.

Thyme contains copper, iron, manganese and B vitamins, as well as phenols, which are antiseptic and antibacterial substances, suggests on the pages of the words of nutritionist Michel Akl of AlJazeera.

Oil of thyme or thyme is an excellent antiseptic. Having in its composition thymol and carvaclol, it successfully fights against inflammatory diseases of the skin and oral cavity, it is added in inhalation for follicular tonsillitis.

Dried thyme in the old days was a great substitute for salt in cooking. It can still be used in a similar capacity, since it can only give taste to food, without causing harm and without increasing blood pressure.

Despite the centuries-old positive experience of using this plant as a medicine, research on the beneficial properties of thyme is still were conducted only on animals. When using it, a doctor's consultation is necessary, as an allergic reaction, individual intolerance may occur, and this useful plant may harm pregnant women.