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Common Names
Barley; Barleygrass
How this plant is used
Food
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| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STARCH | 5 | Seed | not available | 620000.0 | 1.25 | Duke, 1992 * |
| STEARIC-ACID | 8 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STEARIC-ACID | 8 | Seed | 130.0 | 1430.0 | -0.53 | Jim Duke's personal files.* |
| STIGMASTEROL | 12 | Embryo | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STIGMASTEROL | 12 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STIGMASTEROL | 12 | Sprout Seedling | not available | 1010.0 | 1.12 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SULFUR | 14 | Seed | not available | 200.0 | -1.32 | ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes. |
| SYRINGIC-ACID | 6 | 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. |
| THIAMIN | 31 | Seed | 1.0 | 10.0 | 0.81 | Duke, 1992 * |
| THIAMIN | 31 | Stem | not available | 13.0 | 1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| TIN | 4 | Stem | not available | 12.0 | 0.71 | Duke, 1992 * |
| TOCOPHEROLS | 0 | Seed | 56.0 | 71.0 | -0.68 | ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes. |
| TRANS-FERULIC-ACID | 2 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli. |
| TRICIN | 9 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TRICIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TRIGONELLINE | 15 | Seed | not available | 9.0 | -0.47 | Duke, 1992 * |
| TRYPTAMINE | 4 | Sprout Seedling | 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. |
| TRYPTOPHAN | 29 | Seed | 1000.0 | 3000.0 | -0.11 | Jim Duke's personal files.* |
| TRYPTOPHAN | 29 | Sprout Seedling | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TYRAMINE | 11 | Sprout Seedling | not available | 26.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Fungicide | 19 | Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp. |
| Fungistat | 1 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |
| GABA-nergic | 1 | Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer) |
| Gastroprotective | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glutathionigenic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Gonadotrophic | 2 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Hematopoietic | 2 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Hemolytic | 1 | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
| Hemorrhagic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Hemostat | 3 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Hepatocarcinogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatoprotective | 16 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Hepatotoxic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatotropic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Herbicide | 2 | Angewandte Botanik 68(5/6)=1994. Page 195. |
| Herbistat | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Histamine-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hydrocholerectic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Hypercholesterolemic | 1 | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| Hyperglycemic | 2 | Merck 11th Edition |