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
BORNEOL	35	Leaf Essent. Oil	18200.0	153000.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL	35	Root	5.0	460.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL	35	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ACETATE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ACETATE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	4000.0	335900.0	2.42	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ACETATE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ACETATE	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ACETATE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	315000.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-FORMATE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ISOVALERATE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ISOVALERATE	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ISOVALERIANATE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	15000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNYL-ACETATE	12	Leaf	9.0	8565.0	4.28	Duke, 1992 *
BORNYL-ACETATE	12	Root	65.0	6300.0	1.73	Duke, 1992 *
BORNYL-BUTYRATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNYL-FORMATE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNYL-ISOVALERATE	0	Root	250.0	9780.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BORNYL-ISOVALERIANATE	0	Root	15.0	300.0	not available	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Root	not available	5800.0	1.57	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