Valeriana officinalis
Synonyms:
Xie Cao, Tagar
Categories: Ayurvedic Medicine, Essential Oil, Homeopathic Medicine, Medicinal Plant, Powder, Russian Folk Medicine, Tea, Tincture, Traditional African Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Unani Medicine
Valerian (Wiktionary)
English
Etymology
From Old French valeriane or Medieval Latin valeriāna, a reinterpretation of what is found as German Baldrian after valēre (“to be powerful”) or also the gentilic name Valerius, which is seemingly borrowed in the Dark Age period from the late 6th to early 8th century from Turkic or Proto-Mongolic, when the Pannonian Avars were direct neighbours to the Germans, notably also present in Hungarian bojtorján (“burdock”), ultimately from Proto-Mongolic, reflected as
Middle Mongolian ᠪᠠᠯᠴᠢᠷᠭᠠᠨᠠ (balčirɣan-a, “false hellebore
