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
CALCIUM	28	Root	4956.0	42000.0	3.79	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Lokar, L. C., Martini, F. 1997. Chemotaxonomic Investigations on the Genus Valeriana L. in the Northeastern Italy and in Tuscany. I. Phytosterols. Dept. of Biology, University of Trieste. Allionia 35: 103-115.
CAMPHENE	9	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Leaf	0.0	130.0	-0.14	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
CAMPHENE	9	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	5000.0	-0.70	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Root	3.0	65.0	-0.79	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPRONIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	204000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Root	88500.0	750000.0	-1.03	Duke, 1992 *
CARVACROL	37	Root	10.0	195.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARVONE	19	Root	80.0	1640.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
CARVYL-ACETATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Leaf	115.0	1300.0	0.06	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	51000.0	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Root	29.0	1520.0	1.72	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Root Essent. Oil	not available	76000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CATALASE	1	Plant	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
Anxiolytic	9	Merck 11th Edition
AP-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aphidifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aphrodisiac	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	9	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	2	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 235.1999.
Artemicide	2	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Ascaricide	1	Madaus, G. 1976. Lehrbuch der Biologischen Hilfmittel. Vol,. 1-3. 2862 pp. (+ 144 p. index). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildescheim. Reprint of 1938 Madaus.
Asthma-preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent	2	Merck 11th Edition
Ataxigenic	1	Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
ATPase-Inhibitor	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Autotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bacteristat	2	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Blocker	2	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Bradycardiac	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bronchoprotectant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bruchiphobe	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.