Plant Hordeum vulgare (Poaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Barley; Barleygrass

How this plant is used

Food

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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
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Stem	not available	3300.0	-0.07	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Plant	61000.0	235000.0	2.06	Jim Duke's personal files.*
ASH	0	Seed	9000.0	132000.0	2.53	Jim Duke's personal files.*
ASH	0	Stem	not available	81000.0	0.62	Duke, 1992 *
BARWIN	0	Seed	not available	6.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Plant	149.0	660.0	2.85	Jim Duke's personal files.*
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Seed	0.0	1.0	-0.37	Jim Duke's personal files.*
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Stem	not available	312.0	1.40	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
BETA-GLUCAN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Embryo	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Sprout Seedling	not available	980.0	1.32	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
BETAINE	14	Root	not available	234.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE	14	Shoot	not available	1.8	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
BIOTIN	4	Seed	0.1	0.9	-0.53	Jim Duke's personal files.*
BORON	4	Seed	2.0	6.0	-0.86	Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron).
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Plant	800.0	10400.0	-0.34	Jim Duke's personal files.*
CALCIUM	28	Seed	160.0	4100.0	-0.01	Jim Duke's personal files.*

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Abortifacient	1	Duke, 1992 *
Absorbent	1	Martindale's 29th
Acarifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Acetylcholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acidulant	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Adjuvant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Adrenergic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	14	Okada,Y,et al.1995.Search for Naturally Occurring Substances to Prevent the Complications of Diabetes.II.Inhibitory Effect of Coumarin and Flavonoid Derivatives on Bovine Lens Aldose Reductase and Rabbit Platelet Aggregation.Chem Pharm Bull43(8):1385-1387
Allelochemic	5	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Allelopathic	7	Holappa, L.D., and Blum*, U. 1991. Effects of Exogenously Applied Ferulic Acid, a Potential Allelopathic Compound, on Leaf Growth, Water Utilization, and Endogenous Abscisic Acid Levels of Tomato, Cucumber, and Bean. J. of Chemical Ecology, 17(5): 865.
Allergenic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Amphiglycemic?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Analgesic	19	Duke, 1992 *
Anaphrodisiac	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Androgenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic?	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).