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
ACETOXYVALTRATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACEVALTRATE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACEVALTRATE	1	Root	not available	120.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACEVALTRATE	1	Tissue Culture	100.0	120.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACTINIDINE	4	Rhizome	not available	1.8	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACTINIDINE	4	Root	not available	0.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALANINE	3	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALANINE	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALKALOIDS	0	Root	500.0	2000.0	-0.82	Duke, 1992 *
ALLO-AROMADENDRENE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	9700.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
ALLO-AROMADENDRENE	0	Root	0.0	195.0	not available	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
ALLO-AROMADENDRENE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CURCUMENE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CURCUMENE	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-ELAEOSTEARIC-ACID	0	Seed Oil	not available	446000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-FENCHENE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-KERZYLALCOHOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-KESSYL-ALCOHOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-KESSYL-ALCOHOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-METHYL-2-PYRROLYL-KETONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.

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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
Antipeptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiperiodontal	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiperiodontic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiperiodontitic	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiperistaltic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipermeability	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiperoxidant	4	Planta Medica, 57: A54, 1991.
Antipharyngitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiphenylketonuric	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiphotophobic	2	Martindale's 29th
Antipityriasic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiplaque	7	Osawa, K., Matsumoto, T., Maruyama, T., Takiguchi, T., Okuda, K., and Takazoe, I., Studies of the antibacterial activity of plant extracts and their constituents against periodontopathic bacteria, Bull Tokyo Dent. Coll., 31 (1), 1990, 17-21
Antiplasmodial	2	Duke, 1992 *
AntiPMS	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antipneumonic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipodriac	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antipolio	3	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antipoliomyelitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiporphyric	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiprogestational	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.