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
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.