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
ASH	0	Root	16874.0	143000.0	2.15	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARAGINE	2	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AZULENE	10	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BALDRIANIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BALDRIATANNIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BALDRINAL	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-BISABOLENE	6	Leaf Essent. Oil	6200.0	9000.0	-0.22	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-BISABOLENE	6	Root	2.0	165.0	1.25	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Leaf	6.0	345.0	-0.17	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	2500.0	13600.0	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CUBEBENE	0	Leaf	15.0	335.0	0.67	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
BETA-CUBEBENE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	6500.0	13100.0	1.34	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-IONONE	13	Leaf	4.0	75.0	1.71	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
BETA-IONONE	13	Leaf Essent. Oil	1800.0	3000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-IONONE	13	Root	not available	not available	not available	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 *