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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Valeriana officinalis (Valerianaceae)

Common Names
Valerian; Common Valerian; Garden-Heliotrope
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
MYRTENYL-ACETATE 1 Root *
MYRTENYL-ISOVALERATE 0 Rhizome *
MYRTENYL-ISOVALERIANATE 0 Root *
N-(2-(4-HYDROXY-PHENYL)-ETHYL)-10-HYDROXY-ACTINIDINIUM 0 Root 10.0 *
N-(2-(4-HYDROXY-PHENYL)-ETHYL)-ACTINIDINIUM 0 Root 300.0 *
N-(BETA-(P-HYDROXYPHENYL)-ETHYL)-ACTINIDINE 0 Plant *
N-(P-HYDROXYPHENETHYL)-ACTINIDINE 1 Root Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
N-BUTYL-VALERATE 1 Leaf Essent. Oil 4.0 24600.0 *
N-VALERALDEHYDE 1 Leaf 5.0 315.0 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
N-VALERALDEHYDE 1 Leaf Essent. Oil 2200.0 12300.0 *
NIACIN 39 Root 6.0 52.0 0.05 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Plant 3000.0 -0.33 *
OXYDASE 0 Plant *
OXYDASE 0 Root *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Plant *
P-CYMENE 16 Root *
P-CYMENE 16 Root Essent. Oil *
P-CYMOL 0 Root *
PACIFIGORGIOL 0 Leaf 16.0 2195.0 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Plant *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Expectorant 10 *
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Feline-attractant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic 1 Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor 30 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 19 *
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 3 *
Fungitoxic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
GABA-Inhibitor 1 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.
Gastroirritant 1 Martindale's 29th
Gastroprotective 3 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 1 *
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide 2 *
Gram(-)icide 2 *
GST-Inducer 1 *
Hemolytic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.