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Plant Valeriana officinalis (Valerianaceae)

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
BORNEOL 35 Leaf Essent. Oil 18200.0 153000.0 1.41 Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL 35 Root 5.0 460.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL 35 Root Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ACETATE 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ACETATE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 4000.0 335900.0 2.42 Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ACETATE 0 Rhizome not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ACETATE 0 Rhizome Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ACETATE 0 Root Essent. Oil not available 315000.0 1.41 Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-FORMATE 0 Root Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ISOVALERATE 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ISOVALERATE 0 Rhizome Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ISOVALERIANATE 0 Root Essent. Oil not available 15000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
BORNYL-ACETATE 12 Leaf 9.0 8565.0 4.28 Duke, 1992 *
BORNYL-ACETATE 12 Root 65.0 6300.0 1.73 Duke, 1992 *
BORNYL-BUTYRATE 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BORNYL-FORMATE 1 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BORNYL-ISOVALERATE 0 Root 250.0 9780.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
BORNYL-ISOVALERIANATE 0 Root 15.0 300.0 not available Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Root not available 5800.0 1.57 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.