Plant Hordeum vulgare (Poaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Barley; Barleygrass

How this plant is used

Food

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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
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Stem	not available	3300.0	-0.07	Duke, 1992 *
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	not available	81000.0	0.62	Duke, 1992 *
BARWIN	0	Seed	not available	6.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
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	not available	312.0	1.40	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
BETA-GLUCAN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Embryo	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Sprout Seedling	not available	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	not available	234.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE	14	Shoot	not available	1.8	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
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BORON	4	Seed	2.0	6.0	-0.86	Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages.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	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antitumor (brain)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Breast)	4	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Antitumor (Cervix)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (CNS)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Colon)	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Forestomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Gastric)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (GI)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Kidney)	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antitumor (Liver)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Prostate)	4	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antitumor (Skin)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Stomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	5	Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antitympanitic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiulcer	9	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiulcerogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiuricosuric	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Antivaccinia	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.