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
ASH	0	Root	16874.0	143000.0	2.15	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARAGINE	2	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AZULENE	10	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BALDRIANIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BALDRIATANNIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BALDRINAL	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-BISABOLENE	6	Leaf Essent. Oil	6200.0	9000.0	-0.22	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-BISABOLENE	6	Root	2.0	165.0	1.25	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Leaf	6.0	345.0	-0.17	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	2500.0	13600.0	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CUBEBENE	0	Leaf	15.0	335.0	0.67	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
BETA-CUBEBENE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	6500.0	13100.0	1.34	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-IONONE	13	Leaf	4.0	75.0	1.71	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
BETA-IONONE	13	Leaf Essent. Oil	1800.0	3000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-IONONE	13	Root	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
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Photosensitizer	1	Rinzler, C. A. 1990. The Complete Book of Herbs, Spices and Condiments. Facts on File, New York. 199 pp.
Pituitary-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Preservative	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Proliferant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer	1	Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthetase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor	3	Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide	2	Martindale's 29th
PTK-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Roborant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Rubefacient	1	Martindale's 29th