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Common Names
Valerian; Common Valerian; Garden-Heliotrope
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALPHA-METHYL-KETONE-PYRROLE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-PINENE | 28 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-PINENE | 28 | Leaf | 2.0 | 6095.0 | 0.17 | Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations. |
| ALPHA-PINENE | 28 | Leaf Essent. Oil | 1000.0 | 239100.0 | 0.56 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-PINENE | 28 | Rhizome Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-PINENE | 28 | Root | 1.0 | 500.0 | -0.54 | Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations. |
| ALPHA-PINENE | 28 | Root Essent. Oil | not available | 25000.0 | -0.96 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-TERPINENE | 13 | Leaf | not available | 15.0 | -0.30 | Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations. |
| ALPHA-TERPINENE | 13 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | 600.0 | -0.70 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-TERPINEOL | 23 | Leaf | 22.0 | 1925.0 | 2.79 | Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations. |
| ALPHA-TERPINEOL | 23 | Leaf Essent. Oil | 9500.0 | 75400.0 | 0.66 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-TERPINEOL | 23 | Root | 95.0 | 2365.0 | 2.00 | Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations. |
| ALPHA-TERPINEOL | 23 | Root Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL | 32 | Flower | not available | 221.0 | 1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-VALENE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALUMINUM | 5 | Root | 50.0 | 422.0 | -0.09 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ANHYDROVALENOL-ISOVALERATE | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| AR-CURCUMENE | 3 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ARGININE | 14 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ASCORBIC-ACID | 112 | Root | not available | 0.0 | -0.65 | 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 * |