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
VALERIANOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
VALERIANOL	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERIANOLIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERIANONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERIC-ACID	9	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERIDINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALEROSIDATE	0	Root	not available	15000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALEROSIDATUM	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
VALEROSIDE-A	0	Rhizome	not available	440.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALEROSIDE-A	0	Root	not available	440.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALTRATE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALTRATE	2	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALTRATE	2	Root	4000.0	18000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALTRATE	2	Tissue Culture	380.0	450.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALTRATE-ISOVALEROXYHYDRIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Root	not available	882000.0	0.74	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Root	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
Expectorant	10	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Fungiphilic	1	J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat	3	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide	2	Duke, 1992 *
GST-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.