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
ISOVALERIC-ACID	5	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVALEROXY-DIHYDROVALTRATE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVALEROXY-HYDROXY-DIDROVALTRATE	0	Root	25.0	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVALEROXY-HYDROXY-DIHYDROVALTRATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVALTRATE	0	Rhizome	not available	5280.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVALTRATE	0	Root	500.0	6300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVALTRATES	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
KAEMPFEROL	75	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KANOKOSIDES	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
KESSANE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KESSANE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
KESSANE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KESSENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
KESSYL-2-OL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KESSYL-2-OL-ACETATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KESSYL-6-OL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KESSYL-6-OL-ACETATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KESSYL-GLYCOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
KESSYL-GLYCOL-DIACETATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KONGOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.

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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 *