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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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
P-OXYCINNAMIC-ACID 0 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Leaf *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed 370.0 4070.0 -0.62 Jim Duke's personal files.*
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Leaf *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Seed 2.0 12.0 -0.50 Jim Duke's personal files.*
PENTOSANS 0 Plant 83000.0 239000.0 1.34 Jim Duke's personal files.*
PHOSPHORUS 4 Plant 2300.0 6900.0 1.59 Jim Duke's personal files.*
PHOSPHORUS 4 Seed 1890.0 9200.0 1.02 Jim Duke's personal files.*
PHOSPHORUS 4 Stem 5950.0 2.57 *
PHYLLOQUINONE 5 Seed 0.1 -0.45 *
PHYTATE 0 Seed 1640.0 10000.0 -0.31 *
PHYTIC-ACID 9 Seed 5600.0 11500.0 -0.47 *
PHYTIN 0 Seed 12000.0 -0.59 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Sprout Seedling 2340.0 1.48 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
PIPERIDINE 10 Seed 1.0 *
PLASTOHYDROQUINONE-9 0 Leaf *
PLASTOHYDROQUINONE-9 0 Root *
PLASTOHYDROQUINONE-9 0 Tissue Culture *
PLASTOQUINONE 0 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PLASTOQUINONE 9 0 Leaf *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiretinitic Optometry 1 *
Antiretinopathic 1 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
Antiretinotic 2 *
AntiReye's 1 Martindale's 29th
Antirheumatic 8 *
Antirheumatitic? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antirhinitic 1 *
Antischizophrenic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antisclerodermic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiscoliotic 1 *
Antiscorbutic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiscotomic 1 *
Antiseborrheic 6 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiseptic 13 Martindale's 28th
Antiserotonin 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antishingles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antisickling 3 *
Antisilicotic 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antispare-Tire 1 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
Antispasmodic 12 Phytotherapy Research, 4: 73.