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
CALCIUM	28	Sprout Seedling	not available	720.0	-0.58	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.
CALCIUM	28	Stem	not available	11000.0	-0.84	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
CALMODULIN	1	Cotyledon	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALMODULIN	1	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Sprout Seedling	not available	330.0	1.00	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CANDICINE	4	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Plant	265000.0	785000.0	0.73	Jim Duke's personal files.*
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Seed	608000.0	868000.0	1.37	Jim Duke's personal files.*
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Stem	not available	801000.0	0.72	Duke, 1992 *
CATECHIN	43	Leaf	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.
CELLULOSE	1	Plant	190000.0	322000.0	0.14	Jim Duke's personal files.*
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Seed	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.
CHOLINE	20	Seed	928.0	1617.0	-0.05	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Stem	not available	31.0	3.46	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSOERIOL-7-GALACTOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSOERIOL-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRININ	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Stem	not available	49.0	1.45	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Seed	1.0	20.0	0.47	Jim Duke's personal files.*

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List of plant activities.
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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).