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
MYRTENYL-ACETATE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRTENYL-ISOVALERATE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRTENYL-ISOVALERIANATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-(2-(4-HYDROXY-PHENYL)-ETHYL)-10-HYDROXY-ACTINIDINIUM	0	Root	not available	10.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-(2-(4-HYDROXY-PHENYL)-ETHYL)-ACTINIDINIUM	0	Root	not available	300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-(BETA-(P-HYDROXYPHENYL)-ETHYL)-ACTINIDINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-(P-HYDROXYPHENETHYL)-ACTINIDINE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
N-BUTYL-VALERATE	1	Leaf Essent. Oil	4.0	24600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-VALERALDEHYDE	1	Leaf	5.0	315.0	not available	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
N-VALERALDEHYDE	1	Leaf Essent. Oil	2200.0	12300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Root	6.0	52.0	0.05	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Plant	not available	3000.0	-0.33	Duke, 1992 *
OXYDASE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXYDASE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PACIFIGORGIOL	0	Leaf	16.0	2195.0	not available	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PALMITIC-ACID	13	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
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