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A numerous family of plants, called by botanists Lamiaceae or Labiaceae, gave people many aromatic herbs that are actively used by humans to add spice and irresistible appetizing to various dishes. Among such popular plants as Mint, Oregano, Melissa, Basil, Sage …, there is an unpretentious and fragrant creation of nature called Thyme or Thyme
Fragrant Thyme
Connoisseurs of spices consider the aroma of common thyme (Latin Thymus vulgaris) to be much richer than the aroma of its family relative, Oregano (Origanum vulgare). This allows Thyme to retain its aroma more successfully even when dry, making it the leader among dry spices made from related herbs.
Apparently, botanists, assigning the Latin name "Thymus" to a numerous genus of plants, were of the same opinion. After all, the roots of this word go back to the ancient Greek language, in which the consonant word "incense" meant exactly "fragrant substances", actively used by religious priests to "smudge" their heads, in order to get as close as possible to the Creator of life on Earth during religious ritual events.
One of the types of Thyme is often called the word "Thyme". This refers to creeping thyme (lat. Thymus serpyllum), who knows how to skillfully "weave" picturesque and fragrant living carpets on the earth's surface. Spectacular undersized perennial rightfully bears another popular name - "Bogorodskaya grass". The stems and hard leaves of the plant are highly resistant to trampling, and therefore are often used by landscape designers to create garden lawns where you can relax, walk along, absorbing the aroma of the plant, without fear of penalties and without harming nature.
Cooking use
Thyme can be used in cooking either fresh, if you have a cherished fragrant plot on your site, or in the form of a dried herb harvested in the early summer morning during the delightful flowering of the half-shrub.
Thyme owes its bitter-spicy taste to essential oil containing a number of phenolic substances, the leader of which is "thymol". The largest concentration of essential oil is distinguished by small, harsh leaves, not devoid of external charm.
The aroma of essential oil not only improves the taste of meat (lamb, pork, game), dairy (cottage cheese, cheese), mushroom, less often fish products and dishes, but also protects products from harmful microbes, keeping them fresh for a longer time. Therefore, the fishermen shift the catch with the thyme grass, and the housewives add the leaves to the brine, for example, when pickling cucumbers.
For the benefit of culinary delights, bees also work, collecting fragrant nectar from the mauve small and lipped flowers of the plant in order to process it into the most fragrant and healing honey.
Healing abilities
Using Thyme doesn't end with cooking. The healing abilities of the herb Thyme are recognized even by the official pharmacology, which makes medicinal preparations from the plant for the treatment of diseases of the human respiratory system.
Thyme is one of the oldest healing remedies that were known to the Ancient Romans, Egyptians and other warlike peoples who healed the battle wounds of their valiant warriors with the help of the plant. The bactericidal properties of the essential oil of the plant Thyme in collaboration with a number of other similar substances have maintained the safety of Egyptian mummies for thousands of years.
It is believed that the aroma of Thyme has a beneficial effect on the human nervous system, which is easy to check by highlighting a small sunny "patch" of land in your own country house, where the soil is loose, but not overfed with fertilizers, by "laying" on it a live aromatic rug of Thyme.
Differences between thyme and oregano
In the photo on the left is a bush of Oregano, and on the right is Thyme. The leaves of Oregano are larger and more tender than the tough, small leaves of Thyme. The inflorescences of the two plants are more similar, but, nevertheless, in Oregano they are looser, paniculate, and in Thyme they are denser, more compact. And most importantly, Thyme is much more fragrant than Oregano.
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