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Satureja
Satureja (savory) is a Lamiaceae genus of aromatic Mediterranean-to-Central-Asian herbs including summer savory (S. hortensis) and winter savory (S. montana), rich in thymol and carvacrol essential oils used culinarily and medicinally.
Scutellaria baicalensis
Scutellaria baicalensis (Huangqin, Chinese or Baikal skullcap), a Lamiaceae perennial herb of Siberia to Vietnam; its dried root, rich in baicalin and baicalein, is a major traditional Chinese medicine with limited human clinical evidence.
Sideritis
Sideritis (ironwort, Greek mountain tea, τσάι του βουνού) is a Lamiaceae genus of 148 species from Europe to China; four species hold an EU traditional herbal monograph for cough, cold, and mild gastrointestinal complaints.
Spearmint
Spearmint (Mentha spicata), also called garden mint, is a strongly aromatic perennial herb grown worldwide as a culinary herb and source of carvone-rich essential oil.
Stachys
Stachys (woundwort) is a large cosmopolitan genus of Lamiaceae herbs, about 300-450 species centered in the Mediterranean and Turkey, with two-lipped flowers, debated Betonica taxonomy, and medicinal herbal-tea uses.
Tectona
Tectona (teak genus), Lamiaceae; three Asian tree species, type T. grandis; 2n=36; natural teak forests ~29 Mha, planted 4.35–6.89 Mha; prized durable timber.
Teucrium chamaedrys
Teucrium chamaedrys (wall germander), Lamiaceae subshrub native to Europe to Iran, used in folk medicine and as a slimming remedy; its diterpenoid teucrin A causes documented hepatitis.
Teucrium polium
Teucrium polium (mountain germander), Lamiaceae medicinal plant of the Mediterranean and Middle East, used for diabetes and lipids; documented cause of hepatitis, liver failure, and kidney toxicity.
Teucrium scorodonia
Teucrium scorodonia, known as wood sage or woodland germander, is a perennial subshrub in the mint family native to Europe, Madeira, and Tunisia, despite not being a true sage.
Thyme
Thyme (Thymus spp., especially Thymus vulgaris) is a Mediterranean Lamiaceae herb used as a culinary seasoning and herbal medicine; thymol-rich essential oil, EU traditional-use status for productive cough, about 220 species.
Thymus pulegioides
Thymus pulegioides (large thyme, lemon thyme) is a European Lamiaceae subshrub of section Serpyllum, subsection Alternantes, chemically polymorphic with carvacrol, thymol, geraniol, and linalool chemotypes, used in traditional medicine.
Thymus serpyllum
Thymus serpyllum L. (wild thyme, breckland thyme, creeping thyme) is a mat-forming Lamiaceae subshrub native from Europe to western Siberia, used since antiquity for its thymol- and carvacrol-bearing essential oil and in traditional respiratory and gastrointestinal medicine.
Thymus vulgaris
Thymus vulgaris (common thyme, garden thyme) is a Mediterranean Lamiaceae subshrub used as a culinary herb and medicinal plant; six chemotypes, thymol-rich essential oil, EMA and European Pharmacopoeia monographs.
Vitex
Vitex (chaste tree genus) is a genus of about 250 species of trees and shrubs in Lamiaceae, pantropical and warm temperate, with palmate compound leaves and drupaceous fruits; type species Vitex agnus-castus, used for timber and herbal medicine.
Vitex agnus-castus
Vitex agnus-castus (chaste tree, chasteberry, monk's pepper) is a Lamiaceae shrub of the Mediterranean to Central Asia whose dried fruit (agni casti fructus) is an EU-approved herbal medicine for premenstrual syndrome, acting via dopaminergic prolactin reduction.
Vitex negundo
Vitex negundo (huang jing, nirgundi, lagundi) is an Asian Lamiaceae shrub used in Ayurveda and Chinese medicine; 120 compounds isolated, and Philippine lagundi leaf preparations are FDA-approved for cough and asthma.