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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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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List of plant activities.
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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 *
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 *
Antidyskinetic 2 Martindale's 28th
Antidysmenorrheic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antidyspeptic 1 *
Antidysphagic 1 *
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 *