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
LEDOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Leaf Essent. Oil	2300.0	25500.0	-0.57	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Plant	not available	165000.0	2.00	Duke, 1992 *
LIPASE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN	78	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAALI-ALCOHOL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAALIOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Root	375.0	3180.0	0.33	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Root	0.7	5.6	-0.48	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRTEN-1-OL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRTEN-1-OL-ISOVALERATE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRTENOL	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRTENOL	2	Root	3.0	85.0	not available	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.

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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
Antileukotriene	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene-D4	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic?	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilupus	1	Martindale's 28th
AntiLyme	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphocytic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilymphomic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antimaculitic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial	2	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antimanic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastalgic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastitic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimeasles	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antimelanogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antimelanomic	8	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMeniere's	1	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Antimenopausal	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antimenorrhagic	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).