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
N-METHYL-TYRAMINE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-METHYL-TYRAMINE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-METHYL-TYRAMINE	1	Sprout Seedling	not available	48.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOXANTHIN	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
NH3	0	Seed	not available	8130.0	0.61	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Seed	17.0	115.0	2.16	Jim Duke's personal files.*
NIACIN	39	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
O-HYDROXYCINNAMIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
OCHROTOXIN-A	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	1325.0	14575.0	-0.86	Jim Duke's personal files.*
ORIENTIN	4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
ORIENTIN-7-O-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
ORYZANOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
OXALACETIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMAROYL-AGMATINE	0	Shoot	not available	2.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	13	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
P-OXYBENZOIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.

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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
Bronchorelaxant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Bruchiphobe	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Calcium-Antagonist	3	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Channel-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	40	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	5	Martindale's 28th
Capillariprotective	1	Merck 11th Edition
Carcinogenic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiac	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.
Cardioactive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiodepressant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiomyopathogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Cardioprotective	12	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiotonic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiovascular	1	Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Caspase-8-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Catabolic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cerebrotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *