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Common Names
Barley; Barleygrass
How this plant is used
Food
| 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| BORON | 4 | Seed | 2.0 | 6.0 | -0.86 | Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages.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.* |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antivaginitic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antivaricose | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antivertigo | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiviral | 8 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiviral? | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antixerophthalmic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Anxiolytic | 7 | Merck 11th Edition |
| AP-1-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Aphrodisiac | 1 | Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer) |
| Apoptotic | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Artemicide | 2 | Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990. |
| Arteriodilator | 1 | Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990. |
| Ascaricide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Asthma-preventive | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Astringent | 2 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Autotoxic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Bacteristat | 3 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker | 3 | Zhu, M., Phillipson, J. D., Greengrass, P. M., Bowery, N. E., Cai, Y. 1997. Plant Polyphenols: Biologically Active Compounds or Non-Selective Binders to Protein? Phytochemistry, 44(3): 441-447. |
| Beta-Blocker | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |