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Common Names
Valerian; Common Valerian; Garden-Heliotrope
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISOBORNEOL | 7 | Leaf | 42.0 | 3900.0 | 1.73 | Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations. |
| ISOBORNEOL | 7 | Leaf Essent. Oil | 18200.0 | 153000.0 | 1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOBORNEOL | 7 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer) |
| ISOBORNEOL | 7 | Root Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOBORNEOL-ACETATE | 0 | Leaf Essent. Oil | 2600.0 | 8400.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOBORNEOL-ACETATE | 0 | Root Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOBORNEOL-ISOVALERATE | 0 | Leaf Essent. Oil | 112500.0 | 478000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOBORNEOL-ISOVALERATE | 0 | Root Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOBORNYL-ACETATE | 2 | Root | 55.0 | 3030.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOBORNYL-ISOVALERATE | 0 | Leaf | 260.0 | 12190.0 | not available | Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations. |
| ISOBORNYL-ISOVALERATE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer) |
| ISOEUGENOL-ISOVALERATE | 0 | Root Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOEUGENOL-VALERATE | 0 | Root Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOEUGENYL-ISOVALERATE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989. |
| ISOLEUCINE | 3 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOVALERAMIDE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOVALERIANIC-ACID | 0 | Leaf | 0.0 | 215.0 | not available | Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations. |
| ISOVALERIANIC-ACID | 0 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | 8400.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOVALERIANIC-ACID | 0 | Root | not available | 200000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOVALERIC-ACID | 5 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antiaggregant | 9 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antiaging | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiakathisic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antialcoholic | 7 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antialkali? | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antiallergic | 9 | J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569. |
| Antialopecic | 4 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antialzheimeran | 7 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antialzheimeran? | 3 | Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8. |
| Antiamblyopic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antianaphylactic | 2 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
| Antiandrogenic | 4 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Antianemic | 2 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antianginal | 3 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antiangiogenic | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antianorectic | 2 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antianorexic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antianxiety | 2 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antiarabiflavinotic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antiarrhythmic | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |