Thyme as a herbal drug - pharmacopoeias and other product characteristics

Thyme: The Genus Thymus

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 293-316

  Stahl Biskup, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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