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Plant Hordeum vulgare (Poaceae)

Common Names
Barley; Barleygrass
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
STARCH 5 Seed not available 620000.0 1.25 Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 130.0 1430.0 -0.53 Jim Duke's personal files.*
STIGMASTEROL 12 Embryo not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Sprout Seedling not available 1010.0 1.12 Duke, 1992 *
SULFUR 14 Seed not available 200.0 -1.32 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
SYRINGIC-ACID 6 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.
THIAMIN 31 Seed 1.0 10.0 0.81 Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN 31 Stem not available 13.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
TIN 4 Stem not available 12.0 0.71 Duke, 1992 *
TOCOPHEROLS 0 Seed 56.0 71.0 -0.68 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
TRANS-FERULIC-ACID 2 Plant not available not available not available Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
TRICIN 9 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRICIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRIGONELLINE 15 Seed not available 9.0 -0.47 Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTAMINE 4 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.
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Seed 1000.0 3000.0 -0.11 Jim Duke's personal files.*
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TYRAMINE 11 Sprout Seedling not available 26.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anemiagenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anesthetic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Angiogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 3 Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic 3 Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Anthelmintic 2 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
Antiacne 8 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiacrocyanotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiacrodermatitic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiacrodynic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiadrenergic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antiaflatoxin 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiAGE 2 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant 13 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiaging 6 Duke, 1992 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 7 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialkali? 1 Martindale's 29th