Valerian

Valerian is a non-scientific common name that may refer to a number of plant species and varieties.

Historical Use of Valerian

Historical Use of Valerian in Western Medicine

Quote Paraph: "The greater part, however, of those taken from the vegetable kingdom, are manifestly inert and insignificant. Even the root of the wild valerian hardly supports its credit."
Sec Auth: Eadie MJ and Bladin PF
Title: A Disease Once Sacred. John Libbey & Company Ltd, 2001
Page: 192
Source: A Disease Once Sacred, John Libbey & Company Ltd, 2001, M.J. Eadie and P.F. Bladin
Complete: Eadie MJ, Bladin PF. A disease once sacred: a history of the medical understanding of epilepsy. Eastleigh: John Libbey; 2001. p. 192.
Primary Source: First Lines of the Practice of Physic by William Cullen

Evidence or the Use of Valerian in the Treatment of Epilepesy

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Fanny Mulder, Dimitri Löwinger, Stephen P Jenkinson, Estelle Kaiser, Tamara Scharf, Micheline Maire, Simone Duss, Claudio Bassetti, Raphaël Heinzer, Reto Auer, Carla Meyer-Massetti
Counselling for Chronic Insomnia in Swiss Pharmacies: A Survey Study Based on Case Vignettes.
Pharmacy (Basel): 2023, 11(3);
[PubMed:37368431] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

A Kapucu, S Ustunova, K Akgun-Dar
Valeriana officinalis extract and 7-Nitroindozole ameliorated seizure behaviours, and 7-Nitroindozole reduced blood pressure and ECG parameters in pentylenetetrazole-kindled rats.
Pol J Vet Sci: 2020, 23(3);349-357
[PubMed:33006866] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

María Eva González-Trujano, Gerardo Contreras-Murillo, Claudia Andrea López-Najera, Fernando Josué Hidalgo-Flores, Andrés Navarrete-Castro, Concepción Gamboa Sánchez, Víctor Manuel Magdaleno-Madrigal
Anticonvulsant activity of Valeriana edulis roots and valepotriates on the pentylenetetrazole-induced seizures in rats.
J Ethnopharmacol: 2021, 265;113299
[PubMed:32841694] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Hwayoung Lee, Jiyun Im, Hansol Won, Jun Young Kim, Hyung-Ki Kim, Jun-Tack Kwon, Young Ock Kim, Sanghyun Lee, Ik-Hyun Cho, Sang Won Lee, Hak-Jae Kim
Antinociceptive effect of Valeriana fauriei regulates BDNF signaling in an animal model of fibromyalgia.
Int J Mol Med: 2018, 41(1);485-492
[PubMed:29115388] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Fahimeh Moradi-Afrapoli, Samad Nejad Ebrahimi, Martin Smiesko, Matthias Hamburger
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J Nat Prod: 2017, 80(5);1548-1557
[PubMed:28485933] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)