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
LEDOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Leaf Essent. Oil	2300.0	25500.0	-0.57	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Plant	not available	165000.0	2.00	Duke, 1992 *
LIPASE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN	78	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAALI-ALCOHOL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAALIOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Root	375.0	3180.0	0.33	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Root	0.7	5.6	-0.48	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRTEN-1-OL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRTEN-1-OL-ISOVALERATE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRTENOL	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRTENOL	2	Root	3.0	85.0	not available	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.

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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
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 *