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
TRIDECA-12-ENE-2-4-6-8-10-PENTAYNE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRIDECEN-(1)-PENTAIN(3,5,7,9,11)	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE	8	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALDIATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALECHLORIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALECHLORINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALENOL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALENOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALENOL-ISOVALERATE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALEPOTRIATES	6	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALEPOTRIATES	6	Root	1000.0	23600.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
VALEPOTRIATES	6	Tissue Culture	not available	103000.0	not available	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
VALEPOTRIATUM	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERANAL	0	Leaf	130.0	2590.0	not available	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
VALERANAL	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	56000.0	101500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERANINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERANONE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERANONE	0	Leaf	70.0	1720.0	not available	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
VALERANONE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	30400.0	67500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERANONE	0	Rhizome	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
Antidermatic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Antidermatitic	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidiabetic	12	Duke, 1992 *
Antidiabetic?	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Antidiscotic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidiuretic	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Mar-92.
Antidote (Aluminum)	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antidote (Cadmium)	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Lead)	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Mercury)	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Paraquat)	1	Martindale's 28th
Antidysgeuzic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidyskinetic	2	Martindale's 28th
Antidysmenorrheic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antidyspeptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidysphagic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiEBV	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antieczemic	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiedemic	5	Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antielastase	2	Duke, 1992 *