Plant Valeriana officinalis (Valerianaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Valerian; Common Valerian; Garden-Heliotrope

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
ALPHA-METHYL-KETONE-PYRROLE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Leaf	2.0	6095.0	0.17	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Leaf Essent. Oil	1000.0	239100.0	0.56	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Root	1.0	500.0	-0.54	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Root Essent. Oil	not available	25000.0	-0.96	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE	13	Leaf	not available	15.0	-0.30	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
ALPHA-TERPINENE	13	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	600.0	-0.70	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Leaf	22.0	1925.0	2.79	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Leaf Essent. Oil	9500.0	75400.0	0.66	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Root	95.0	2365.0	2.00	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Flower	not available	221.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-VALENE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Root	50.0	422.0	-0.09	Duke, 1992 *
ANHYDROVALENOL-ISOVALERATE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AR-CURCUMENE	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Root	not available	0.0	-0.65	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
(-)-Chronotropic	3	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
(-)-Inotropic	3	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Abortifacient	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acaricide	6	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
Acetylcholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AChE-Inhibitor	1	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Acidulant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	13	Duke, 1992 *
Allelochemic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Allelopathic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Allergenic	17	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Amphiglycemic?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Analeptic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	12	Duke, 1992 *