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
IRON	6	Seed	40.0	100.0	-0.24	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
IRON	6	Sprout Seedling	not available	100.0	-0.45	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.
IRON	6	Stem	not available	160.0	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
ISOORIENTIN	4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOORIENTIN-3'-METHYL-ETHER	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOORIENTIN-7-ARABINOSYL-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOORIENTIN-7-FERULYL-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOORIENTIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOORIENTIN-7-RHAMNOGLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVITEXIN	4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVITEXIN-7-DIGLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVITEXIN-7-O-BETA-D-DIGLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVITEXIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JASMONIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCOCYANIDIN	1	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.
LIGNIN	13	Plant	15000.0	77000.0	-1.04	Jim Duke's personal files.*
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	2185.0	24035.0	-0.71	Jim Duke's personal files.*
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Seed	22.0	242.0	-0.58	Jim Duke's personal files.*

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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).