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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Valeriana officinalis (Valerianaceae)

Common Names
Valerian; Common Valerian; Garden-Heliotrope
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
CALCIUM 28 Root 4956.0 42000.0 3.79 *
CAMPESTEROL 2 Plant 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.
CAMPHENE 9 Essential Oil *
CAMPHENE 9 Leaf 0.0 130.0 -0.14 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
CAMPHENE 9 Leaf Essent. Oil 5000.0 -0.70 *
CAMPHENE 9 Rhizome Essent. Oil *
CAMPHENE 9 Root 3.0 65.0 -0.79 *
CAMPHENE 9 Root Essent. Oil *
CAPRONIC-ACID 0 Plant 204000.0 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Root 88500.0 750000.0 -1.03 *
CARVACROL 37 Root 10.0 195.0 *
CARVONE 19 Root 80.0 1640.0 1.41 *
CARVYL-ACETATE 0 Root *
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Essential Oil *
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Leaf 115.0 1300.0 0.06 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Leaf Essent. Oil 51000.0 -0.51 *
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Rhizome Essent. Oil *
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Root 29.0 1520.0 1.72 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Root Essent. Oil 76000.0 1.00 *
CATALASE 1 Plant *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Insulinogenic 4 *
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
Interferonogenic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 2 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 14 *
JNK-Inhibitor 1 *
Juvabional 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratitigenic 1 *
Larvicide 2 Berenbaum, M. R., The natives knew, Chemtech, (May), 1990, 275-279.
Larvistat 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 5 *
Laxative? 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leptingenic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 *
Lipolytic 1 *
Lipotropic 1 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 7 Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lithogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Litholytic 2 Martindale's 28th