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
GRAMINE	5	Protoplast	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GRAMINE	5	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GRAMINE	5	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GRAMINE	5	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HERNIARIN	12	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
HETERODENDRIN	3	Plant	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.
HEXACOSAN-1-AL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXACOSAN-1-OL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HORDATINE-A	3	Sprout Seedling	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.
HORDATINE-B	3	Sprout Seedling	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.
HORDEIN-B	0	Caryopsis	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HORDENINE	8	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HORDENINE	8	Sprout Seedling	not available	63.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HORDEUM-PROTEIN	0	Seed	3.0	80.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HORDEUMIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HORSATINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
HYDROXAMIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYDROXAMIC-ACID	0	Protoplast	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INDOLE-3-CARBOXALDEHYDE	0	Sprout Seedling	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.
INDOLE-3-CARBOXYLIC-ACID	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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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).