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Common Names
Valerian; Common Valerian; Garden-Heliotrope
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (-)-LIMONENE | 0 | Root Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| (-)-MYRTENOL | 0 | Leaf | 3.0 | 60.0 | not available | Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations. |
| (-)-MYRTENOL | 0 | Leaf Essent. Oil | 1200.0 | 2400.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| (-)-MYRTENOL | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| (-)-MYRTENOL-ISOVALERATE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| (-)-PACIFIGORGIOL | 0 | Essential Oil | 7000.0 | 86000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| (S)-(-)-ACTINIDINE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 1,8-CINEOL | 0 | Leaf Essent. Oil | 37700.0 | 65100.0 | -0.48 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 1,8-CINEOLE | 67 | Leaf | 85.0 | 1660.0 | -0.32 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 1-ALPHA-ACEVALTRATE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 2-ACETYL-PYRROLE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991. |
| 7-BETA-ACEVALTRATE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 7-EPIDEACETYLISOVALTRATE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 7-EPIDEACETYLISOVALTRATE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 8-EPIKESSANOL | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991. |
| ACETIC-ACID | 16 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ACETOXY-VALEPOTRIATUM | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ACETOXYVALERENIC-ACID | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ACETOXYVALERENOIC-ACID | 0 | Root | 10.0 | 1680.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ACETOXYVALTRATE | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antigastritic | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antigastrotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigenotoxic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigingivitic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiglaucomic | 2 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antigliomic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiglossitic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antiglycosuric | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigonadotrophic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Antigonadotropic | 3 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Antigout | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigranular | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| AntiGTF | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihalitosic | 2 | American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993. |
| Antihangover | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiheartburn | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihelicobacter | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihemolytic | 2 | Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994. |
| Antihemorrhagic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antihepatitic | 2 | Martindale's 29th |