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
ISOBORNEOL	7	Leaf	42.0	3900.0	1.73	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
ISOBORNEOL	7	Leaf Essent. Oil	18200.0	153000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ISOBORNEOL	7	Root	not available	not available	not available	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
ISOBORNEOL	7	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOBORNEOL-ACETATE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	2600.0	8400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOBORNEOL-ACETATE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOBORNEOL-ISOVALERATE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	112500.0	478000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOBORNEOL-ISOVALERATE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOBORNYL-ACETATE	2	Root	55.0	3030.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOBORNYL-ISOVALERATE	0	Leaf	260.0	12190.0	not available	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
ISOBORNYL-ISOVALERATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
ISOEUGENOL-ISOVALERATE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOEUGENOL-VALERATE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOEUGENYL-ISOVALERATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
ISOLEUCINE	3	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVALERAMIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVALERIANIC-ACID	0	Leaf	0.0	215.0	not available	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
ISOVALERIANIC-ACID	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	8400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVALERIANIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	200000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVALERIC-ACID	5	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Anticirrhotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticlastogen	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticlimacteric	4	Duke, 1992 *
Anticoeliac	1	Martindale's 28th
Anticold	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticolitic	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticomplementary	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticonvulsant	6	Duke, 1992 *
Anticorneotic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticoronary	5	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCrohn's	3	Martindale's 29th
AntiCTS	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticystinuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticystitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidandruff	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidecubitic	3	Martindale's 28th
Antideliriant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidementia	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antidepressant	9	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antidepressant?	1	Duke, 1992 *