The hydrodistilled essential oil of Thymus numidicus (Poiret), grown at Constantine (Algeria), was analysed by GC–MS. The essential oil was largely composed of thymol (68.2%) and carvacrol (16.9%), which are the highest percentages of phenols to be found in an essential oil from a Thymus species.
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