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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CATALASE | 1 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CHATINENE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CHATININE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CHATININE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CHLOROGENIC-ACID | 77 | Root | not available | 7300.0 | 0.90 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CHOLESTERIL-N-VALERATE | 0 | 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. |
| CHOLESTEROL | 1 | 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. |
| CHOLINE | 20 | Leaf | 52000.0 | 58000.0 | 3.08 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CHOLINE | 20 | Root | 3540.0 | 30000.0 | 3.14 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CHOLINE | 20 | Stem | not available | 30000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CHROMIUM | 24 | Root | 0.2 | 1.8 | -0.20 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CIS-VALERENOL-ACETATE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CIS-VALERENOL-ISOVALERATE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CITRONELLOL-ISOVALERATE | 0 | Leaf | 36.0 | 460.0 | not available | Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations. |
| CITRONELLOL-ISOVALERATE | 0 | Leaf Essent. Oil | 15900.0 | 18000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| COBALT | 2 | Root | 0.6 | 4.8 | -0.44 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CRYPTOFAURONOL | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CYCLOARTENOL | 7 | 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. |
| D-LIMONENE | 19 | Leaf | 125.0 | 1400.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| D-LIMONENE | 19 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | 55000.0 | -1.00 | 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. |