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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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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Stem 3300.0 -0.07 *
ASH 0 Plant 61000.0 235000.0 2.06 Jim Duke's personal files.*
ASH 0 Seed 9000.0 132000.0 2.53 Jim Duke's personal files.*
ASH 0 Stem 81000.0 0.62 *
BARWIN 0 Seed 6.0 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Plant 149.0 660.0 2.85 Jim Duke's personal files.*
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Seed 0.0 1.0 -0.37 Jim Duke's personal files.*
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Stem 312.0 1.40 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
BETA-GLUCAN 0 Seed *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Embryo *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Plant *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Sprout Seedling 980.0 1.32 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
BETAINE 14 Root 234.0 -0.35 *
BETAINE 14 Shoot 1.8 -0.58 *
BIOTIN 4 Seed 0.1 0.9 -0.53 Jim Duke's personal files.*
BORON 4 Seed 2.0 6.0 -0.86 Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron).
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Fruit *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Seed *
CALCIUM 28 Plant 800.0 10400.0 -0.34 Jim Duke's personal files.*
CALCIUM 28 Seed 160.0 4100.0 -0.01 Jim Duke's personal files.*
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antispasmophilic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
AntiSpina-Bifida 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistaphylococcic 5 *
Antisteatotic 1 *
Antistomatitic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antistress 4 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistroke 3 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
Antisunburn 2 *
Antisyndrome-X 6 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
Antithiamin 1 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 69.
Antithrombic 1 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Antithyreotropic 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Antithyroid 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitinnitic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
AntiTMJ 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antitoxoplasmotic 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antitriglyceride 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antitumor 16 *
Antitumor (Bladder) 1 *