The medicinal and non-medicinal uses of thyme

Thyme: The Genus Thymus

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 263-291

  Zarzuelo, Antonio ^a   Crespo, Esperanza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

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