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
COPPER	12	Sprout Seedling	not available	8.0	-1.00	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.
COUMARIN	57	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.
CYANIDIN-3-ARABINOSIDE	0	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.
CYANIDIN-3-GLUCOSIDE	0	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.
CYCLIC-AMP	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYCLIC-AMP	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTATHIONE	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTATHIONINE	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Seed	1000.0	2000.0	-0.80	Jim Duke's personal files.*
DIAMINO-PROPANE	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DICENTRINE	4	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIETHYL-AMINE	2	Seed	not available	5.7	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIMETHYL-AMINE	2	Seed	not available	1.6	-1.03	Duke, 1992 *
EPIHETERODENDRIN	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ESCULETIN	30	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ESCULIN	29	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-AMINE	0	Seed	not available	3.4	1.08	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Plant	19000.0	64000.0	0.18	Jim Duke's personal files.*
FAT	0	Seed	5000.0	55000.0	-1.11	Jim Duke's personal files.*
FAT	0	Stem	not available	29000.0	0.00	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Osteogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Ovicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Oviposition-Stimulant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ovulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Oxytocic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Parasiticide	1	Martindale's 29th
Parasympathomimetic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Percutaneostimulant	1	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery	6	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide	41	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	5	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Photoactive	2	Duke, 1992 *
Phytoalexin	2	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Phytohormonal	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Piscicide	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Poultice	1	Martindale's 29th
Preservative	1	Merck 11th Edition
Progesteronigenic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Prolactinogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).