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
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 *

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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.