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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Hordeum vulgare (Poaceae)

Common Names
Barley; Barleygrass
How this plant is used
Food
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
STARCH 5 Seed 620000.0 1.25 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Leaf *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 130.0 1430.0 -0.53 Jim Duke's personal files.*
STIGMASTEROL 12 Embryo *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Plant *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Sprout Seedling 1010.0 1.12 *
SULFUR 14 Seed 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 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 *
THIAMIN 31 Stem 13.0 1.00 *
TIN 4 Stem 12.0 0.71 *
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 Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
TRICIN 9 Shoot *
TRICIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf *
TRIGONELLINE 15 Seed 9.0 -0.47 *
TRYPTAMINE 4 Sprout Seedling 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 *
TYRAMINE 11 Sprout Seedling 26.0 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antipodriac 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antipolio 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antipoliomyelitic 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antipolyp 1 *
Antiporphyric 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiprogestational 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiprolactin 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiproliferant 5 Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Antiprostaglandin 7 *
Antiprostatadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 4 *
Antiprostatotic 1 *
Antipsittacotic 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antipsoriac 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipsychotic 3 Martindale's 29th
Antipyretic 8 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradiation 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiradicular 17 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiRaynaud's 4 *
Antiretardation 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.