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
ERGNOPHYLINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUDESMOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL-ISOVALERATE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL-ISOVALERATE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL-VALERATE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENYL-ACETATE	6	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENYL-ISOVALERATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	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.
FAT	0	Root	2714.0	23000.0	0.00	Duke, 1992 *
FAURINOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	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.
FAURINONE	0	Root	105.0	2080.0	not available	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.
FIBER	15	Root	not available	79000.0	-0.20	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
FIBER(CRUDE)	0	Root	not available	79000.0	-0.95	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(DIETARY)	0	Root	not available	423000.0	0.27	Duke, 1992 *
FORMIC-ACID	13	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE	8	Root	not available	9000.0	-0.46	Duke, 1992 *
GABA	22	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC-ACID	22	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC-ACID	22	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-CADINENE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-LINOLENIC-ACID	20	Plant	not available	62000.0	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
Hypoglycemic	7	Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	14	Duke, 1992 *
Hypothermic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotriglyceridemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
IKK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ileorelaxant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	9	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant	8	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Immunosuppressant	1	Martindale's 29th
Inflammatory	1	Duke, 1992 *
Inhalant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
iNOS-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insect-Repellent	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	7	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	24	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile	2	J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986.