valerian oil

Use: Medicinal Use: The oil is used as a tonic and stimulant in certain medicinal preparation. The  contains the alkaloids chatinine and valerine which inhibit the growth of Gram positive bacteria. Valepotriates used as sedative, have also been isolated from V.jatamansi. It may be used In perfumery for its musky-woody, balsamic notes which give interesting effects in combination with patchouli, costus, oakmoss and cypriol etc. It blends well with all pine materials, lavenders, methyl ionons, cedar wood derivatives, mandarin-petigrian oiletc. The oil is occasionally used for tobacco-flavoring and, in combination with hop or lupilin flavors extracts in beer or rootbeer flavoring( Guenther, VI 28; Arctander, 638).