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
(-)-LIMONENE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-MYRTENOL	0	Leaf	3.0	60.0	not available	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
(-)-MYRTENOL	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	1200.0	2400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-MYRTENOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-MYRTENOL-ISOVALERATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-PACIFIGORGIOL	0	Essential Oil	7000.0	86000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(S)-(-)-ACTINIDINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1,8-CINEOL	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	37700.0	65100.0	-0.48	Duke, 1992 *
1,8-CINEOLE	67	Leaf	85.0	1660.0	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
1-ALPHA-ACEVALTRATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-ACETYL-PYRROLE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
7-BETA-ACEVALTRATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
7-EPIDEACETYLISOVALTRATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
7-EPIDEACETYLISOVALTRATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
8-EPIKESSANOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ACETIC-ACID	16	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETOXY-VALEPOTRIATUM	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETOXYVALERENIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETOXYVALERENOIC-ACID	0	Root	10.0	1680.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETOXYVALTRATE	0	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
Mucolytic	2	Martindale's 29th
Musculotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mutagenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Mycobactericide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	9	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
NADH-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Natriuretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide	12	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neoplastic	1	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NEP-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Nephrotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Neuroexcitant	1	Martindale's 28th
Neuroinhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Neuroprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
Neurotoxic	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Neurotransmitter	3	Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic	3	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *