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
VALERANONE	0	Root	555.0	11120.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERANONE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERENAL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERENAL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERENAL	0	Root	30.0	4000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERENAL	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERENIC-ACID	4	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERENIC-ACID	4	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERENOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
VALERENOL-HEXANDRATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERENOL-VALERATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERENOLIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
VALERENOLIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERENOLIC-ACID	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERENONE	2	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERENONE	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
VALERENONIC-ACID	0	Root	190.0	1400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERIADIPYRIDONE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERIANA-PHENOL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERIANINE	0	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
Hemopoietic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Hepatocarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	10	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoregenerative	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Hepatotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	7	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Histamine-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Histaminic	1	Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	2	Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991.
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypercholesterolemic	1	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hyperglycemic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hypertensive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoammonemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypocholesterolemic	17	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypocholesterolemic?	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.