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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Valeriana officinalis (Valerianaceae)

Common Names
Valerian; Common Valerian; Garden-Heliotrope
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ALPHA-METHYL-KETONE-PYRROLE 0 Root *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Essential Oil *
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 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Rhizome Essent. Oil *
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 25000.0 -0.96 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Leaf 15.0 -0.30 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Leaf Essent. Oil 600.0 -0.70 *
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 *
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 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Flower 221.0 1.00 *
ALPHA-VALENE 0 Root *
ALUMINUM 5 Root 50.0 422.0 -0.09 *
ANHYDROVALENOL-ISOVALERATE 0 Rhizome *
AR-CURCUMENE 3 Root *
ARGININE 14 Rhizome *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Root 0.0 -0.65 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Secretogogue 1 *
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 *
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 *
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 *
Termiticide 1 *
Termitifuge 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosterone-Hydroxylase-Inducer 1 *