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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
CALCIUM 28 Sprout Seedling 720.0 -0.58 Chen, H.C. and Lin, S.M. 1988. Determination of Mineral Elements in Certain Crude Drugs (Part 1), Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci., 4: 259-272.
CALCIUM 28 Stem 11000.0 -0.84 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
CALMODULIN 1 Cotyledon *
CALMODULIN 1 Shoot *
CAMPESTEROL 2 Sprout Seedling 330.0 1.00 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CANDICINE 4 Sprout Seedling *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Plant 265000.0 785000.0 0.73 Jim Duke's personal files.*
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Seed 608000.0 868000.0 1.37 Jim Duke's personal files.*
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Stem 801000.0 0.72 *
CATECHIN 43 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CELLULOSE 1 Plant 190000.0 322000.0 0.14 Jim Duke's personal files.*
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Fruit *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Seed List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CHOLINE 20 Seed 928.0 1617.0 -0.05 *
CHROMIUM 24 Stem 31.0 3.46 *
CHRYSOERIOL-7-GALACTOSIDE 0 Leaf *
CHRYSOERIOL-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf *
CITRININ 2 Seed *
COBALT 2 Stem 49.0 1.45 *
COPPER 12 Seed 1.0 20.0 0.47 Jim Duke's personal files.*
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List of plant activities.
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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.