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
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 *

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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
Antiarteriosclerotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	12	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasphyctic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	8	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiatherogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	12	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacillary	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	29	Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchitic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticancer	6	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Cervix)	2	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Anticancer (Colon)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Gastric)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *