Dr. Axe: Hey guys, Dr. Axe here, doctor of natural medicine and founder of draxe.com.
In this video, I'm going to share with you the five major benefits of thyme essential
oil and how to use thyme to improve your overall health.
Let's go ahead and get started with talking about the compounds of thyme essential oil.
I'll tell you what.
A lot of other essential oils I would say get a lot more press than thyme oil.
Of course lavender is very popular.
Oil of oregano, eucalyptus, tea tree, frankincense, lemon oil, peppermint.
Thyme oil is one of my top five favorite oils that if I were stranded on a desert island
I would actually have with me.
It's not talked about very much.
Thyme oil contains some incredible healing compounds, one of those being thymol.
Thymol is what actually gives thyme its antiseptic and antimicrobial properties which makes it
so effective in treating different conditions.
Also, it contains carvacrol which is one of the chief compounds that gives oregano oil
its benefits.
When it comes to thyme, its number one benefit is acting as a natural antimicrobial for fighting
infections.
In fact, a 2011 study found that using thyme oil can actually kill off around 120 different
types of pathogenic bacteria and even antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria in fighting
off conditions such as MRSA.
Again, you look at the benefits of thyme oil acting as a natural antiseptic, it is incredible.
If you ever come down with a health issue whether it's a cold, flu, some type of infection,
you may consider using thyme oil as part of your natural treatment protocol.
What I love to do if you're feeling like let's say you have respiratory issues and you have
a cold or bronchitis, I recommend mixing some eucalyptus oil and thyme oil together with
some lemon oil and actually taking in deep breaths.
You can mix it in water and kind of go over hot vapor.
You can mix thyme oil, eucalyptus and lemon with some coconut oil and rub it on your chest
and then get in a hot shower.
Again, thyme oil is great for opening up the airways.
It's great for fighting infections on a regular basis as well.
One of the other things, if you have a skin issue, if you have a cut, a burn, a scrape,
mixing some thyme oil with maybe some lavender, tea tree and coconut oil, putting that on
the area.
Thyme oil is a powerful natural way to fight infections and pathogenic bacteria.
Number two benefit and the reason you should have thyme oil stocked in your at home medicine
cabinet is its benefits for balancing hormones.
Thyme oil is a pro progesterone.
It helps strengthen progesterone levels in your body.
Listen, a lot of female hormone issues today and actually even male hormone issues are
due to low progesterone levels.
A lot of people have too much estrogen and not enough progesterone.
If somebody is struggling with infertility, PCOS syndrome or uterine fibroids, those can
all be caused by lack of progesterone and too much estrogen.
Again, using thyme oil on a regular basis is a great way to combat that.
I'd recommend mixing thyme oil with clary sage and using those two oils together with
some coconut oil and rubbing it on the body two to three times daily.
Again, thyme oil, powerful for balancing out hormones.
The third benefit of thyme oil is for your skin.
If you want beautiful glowing skin, if you want to fight especially acne, what I recommend
you do is mixing thyme, lavender and tea tree oil with manuka honey, rubbing that on your
face, rinsing it off.
Thyme oil is great for the skin.
It's also great for eczema specifically.
My best eczema recipe is mixing thyme, geranium oil and chamomile oil, essentially thyme and
geranium or geranium rose, mixing that together with a little bit of shea butter, rubbing
that into areas of eczema.
Thyme oil is great for fighting eczema, psoriasis, or helping dry, flaky red skin.
It is great for really any skin condition.
The fourth benefit of thyme oil is for dental health.
If you have any sort of dental issue or mouth issue, you can add thyme to toothpaste.
In fact, thyme and myrrh together is my favorite combination, thyme, myrrh, maybe some peppermint
oil.
Make your own at home toothpaste again with thyme, with myrrh, and with some peppermint
and a little bit of coconut oil and baking soda and maybe a little bit of clay in there.
Making your own at home toothpaste with thyme is fantastic.
Last but not least, thyme is a great natural bug spray.
If you've got mosquitoes in an area, yellow flies, or any type of insects that are causing
issues, you can mix thyme oil with lemon grass is probably my favorite combo.
Thyme and lemon grass together mixed with a little bit of water and vinegar.
You can spray yourself down as a natural bug spray as a great thing to do as well.
Thyme is incredible because of thymol, because of carvacrol, because of some of the other
compounds that are found in it.
By the way, when you're buying thyme essential oil, make sure it's from a certified organic
company.
Make sure it's therapeutic grade.
Look for organic therapeutic grade thyme oil.
Make sure you stock thyme and thyme essential oil in your at home natural medicine cabinet.
Hey, if you want to learn more advanced ways to use thyme oil, make sure to check out my
latest article on thyme oil.
You can simply look up thyme oil Dr. Axe.
It'll bring you to my article I've written.
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