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
AESCULIN	33	Protoplast	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALKYL RESORCINOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-ALLOCRYPTOPINE	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-KETO-GLUTARIC-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.
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Seed	3.0	11.0	-0.70	Jim Duke's personal files.*
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOQUINONE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOQUINONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOQUINONE	0	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.
ALPHA-TOCOQUINONE	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Seed	not available	7.0	-0.35	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ALUMINUM	5	Stem	not available	212.0	-0.79	Duke, 1992 *
AMMONIA	0	Seed	not available	8130.0	0.54	Duke, 1992 *
AMMONIA(NH3)	0	Seed	not available	8130.0	1.36	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC	2	Sprout Seedling	not available	0.0	not available	Chen, H.C. and Lin, S.M. 1988. Determination of Mineral Elements in Certain Crude Drugs (Part 1), Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci., 4: 259-272.
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Seed	not available	0.0	-0.34	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses

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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
Hypertensive	8	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypnotic	3	Schultes, R.E. De Plantis Toxicariis e Mundo Novo Tropicale Commentationes XXXVI. Justicia (Acanthaceae) as a Source of an Hallucinogenic Snuff. Economic Botany 44(1): 61-70, 1990.
Hypocalcemic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hypocholesterolemic	19	Choi, J.S., Yokozawa,* T., and Oura, H. Antihyperlipidemic Effect Of Flavonoids From Prunus davidiana. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 218-224, 1991.
Hypoglycemic	12	Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	11	Duke, 1992 *
Hypothermic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ileorelaxant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	8	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant	14	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Immunosuppressant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	1	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.
Insectifuge	10	Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insulinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Insulinotonic	1	J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferon-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).