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
TYROSINE	8	Seed	2000.0	6000.0	-0.40	Jim Duke's personal files.*
UBIQUINONE	8	Sprout Seedling	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.
UMBELLIFERONE	22	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UMBELLIFERONE	22	Sprout Seedling	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.
VALINE	3	Seed	6000.0	9000.0	-0.37	Jim Duke's personal files.*
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIOLAXANTHIN	2	Sprout Seedling	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.
VIT-K-1	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VITAMIN-B-1	24	Seed	not available	4.5	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
VITAMIN-B-2	0	Seed	not available	1.3	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
VITAMIN-K-1	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VITAMIN-K-1	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VITAMIN-K-1	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VITEXIN-7-O-BETA-D-DIGLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VITEXIN-7-RHAMNOGLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Plant	not available	883000.0	0.48	Jim Duke's personal files.*
WATER	0	Seed	6000.0	178000.0	-0.19	Jim Duke's personal files.*
WATER	0	Stem	not available	860000.0	0.43	Duke, 1992 *
WAX	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Seed	20.0	30.0	-0.43	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.

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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
Contraceptive	2	Martindale's 28th
Copper-Antagonist	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
Cosmetic	5	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COX-1-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
Curare	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Cyanogenic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Cytoprotective	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.
Cytotoxic	6	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Depressant	2	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermatitigenic	6	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Detoxicant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic?	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Diuretic	11	Duke, 1992 *
DME-Inhibitor	1	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 134.
DNA-Active	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.