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
ACETOXYVALTRATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACEVALTRATE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACEVALTRATE	1	Root	not available	120.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACEVALTRATE	1	Tissue Culture	100.0	120.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACTINIDINE	4	Rhizome	not available	1.8	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACTINIDINE	4	Root	not available	0.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALANINE	3	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALANINE	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALKALOIDS	0	Root	500.0	2000.0	-0.82	Duke, 1992 *
ALLO-AROMADENDRENE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	9700.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
ALLO-AROMADENDRENE	0	Root	0.0	195.0	not available	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
ALLO-AROMADENDRENE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CURCUMENE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CURCUMENE	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-ELAEOSTEARIC-ACID	0	Seed Oil	not available	446000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-FENCHENE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-KERZYLALCOHOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-KESSYL-ALCOHOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-KESSYL-ALCOHOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-METHYL-2-PYRROLYL-KETONE	0	Plant	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.

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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
Secretogogue	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sedative	25	Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Serotoninergic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Sialogogue	1	Martindale's 29th
Soap	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Spasmogenic	5	Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Spermicide	2	Martindale's 28th
Spermigenic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Sprout-Inhibitor	1	Duke, J.A.. Personal Communication.
Stomachic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Succinoxidase-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sunscreen	3	Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Suppository	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Surfactant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sweetener	2	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Taenicide	1	Martindale's 28th
Teratologic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Termiticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Termitifuge	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosterone-Hydroxylase-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *