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
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Root	not available	83000.0	3.58	Duke, 1992 *
PATCHOLYL-ALCOHOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PATCHOULYL-ALCOHOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PENTYL-VALERATE	0	Leaf	4.0	565.0	not available	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PENTYL-VALERATE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	1800.0	22200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PEROXIDASE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PEROXIDASE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Root	39.0	330.0	-0.56	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Root	1215.0	10300.0	-0.40	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Root	10148.0	86000.0	-0.36	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RAFFINOSE	1	Root	not available	30000.0	-0.60	Duke, 1992 *
RESIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Root	0.1	1.2	-0.63	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Leaf	3.0	345.0	-0.04	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
SABINENE	5	Leaf Essent. Oil	1200.0	13600.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
SACCHAROSE	0	Plant	not available	50000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM	60	Root	0.5	4.4	-0.05	Duke, 1992 *
SERINE	1	Rhizome	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
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.