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
TRIDECA-12-ENE-2-4-6-8-10-PENTAYNE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRIDECEN-(1)-PENTAIN(3,5,7,9,11)	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE	8	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALDIATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALECHLORIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALECHLORINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALENOL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALENOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALENOL-ISOVALERATE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALEPOTRIATES	6	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALEPOTRIATES	6	Root	1000.0	23600.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
VALEPOTRIATES	6	Tissue Culture	not available	103000.0	not available	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
VALEPOTRIATUM	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERANAL	0	Leaf	130.0	2590.0	not available	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
VALERANAL	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	56000.0	101500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERANINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERANONE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERANONE	0	Leaf	70.0	1720.0	not available	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
VALERANONE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	30400.0	67500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERANONE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiscotomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseborrheic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic	19	Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Antiserotonin	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antishingles	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antisickling	3	Ekeke, G.I. and Shode, F.O. 1988. Phenylalanine is the Predominant Antisickling Agent in Cajanus cajan Seed Extract. Planta Medica 56(1): 41, 1990.
Antisilicotic	1	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antisinusitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antispare-Tire	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antispasmodic	25	Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Antispasmophilic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antistaphylococcic	9	Duke, 1992 *
Antisteatotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antistomatitic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antistreptococcic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antistress	6	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistroke	3	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antisunburn	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antisyncopic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antisyndrome-X	6	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95