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
CALCIUM	28	Root	4956.0	42000.0	3.79	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Lokar, L. C., Martini, F. 1997. Chemotaxonomic Investigations on the Genus Valeriana L. in the Northeastern Italy and in Tuscany. I. Phytosterols. Dept. of Biology, University of Trieste. Allionia 35: 103-115.
CAMPHENE	9	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Leaf	0.0	130.0	-0.14	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
CAMPHENE	9	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	5000.0	-0.70	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Root	3.0	65.0	-0.79	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPRONIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	204000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Root	88500.0	750000.0	-1.03	Duke, 1992 *
CARVACROL	37	Root	10.0	195.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARVONE	19	Root	80.0	1640.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
CARVYL-ACETATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Leaf	115.0	1300.0	0.06	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	51000.0	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Root	29.0	1520.0	1.72	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Root Essent. Oil	not available	76000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CATALASE	1	Plant	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
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 *