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Common Names
Barley; Barleygrass
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASCORBIC-ACID | 112 | Stem | not available | 3300.0 | -0.07 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ASH | 0 | Plant | 61000.0 | 235000.0 | 2.06 | Jim Duke's personal files.* |
| ASH | 0 | Seed | 9000.0 | 132000.0 | 2.53 | Jim Duke's personal files.* |
| ASH | 0 | Stem | not available | 81000.0 | 0.62 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BARWIN | 0 | Seed | not available | 6.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-CAROTENE | 53 | Plant | 149.0 | 660.0 | 2.85 | Jim Duke's personal files.* |
| BETA-CAROTENE | 53 | Seed | 0.0 | 1.0 | -0.37 | Jim Duke's personal files.* |
| BETA-CAROTENE | 53 | Stem | not available | 312.0 | 1.40 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| BETA-GLUCAN | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-SITOSTEROL | 47 | Embryo | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-SITOSTEROL | 47 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-SITOSTEROL | 47 | Sprout Seedling | not available | 980.0 | 1.32 | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| BETAINE | 14 | Root | not available | 234.0 | -0.35 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETAINE | 14 | Shoot | not available | 1.8 | -0.58 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BIOTIN | 4 | Seed | 0.1 | 0.9 | -0.53 | Jim Duke's personal files.* |
| BORON | 4 | Seed | 2.0 | 6.0 | -0.86 | Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron). |
| CAFFEIC-ACID | 102 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAFFEIC-ACID | 102 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CALCIUM | 28 | Plant | 800.0 | 10400.0 | -0.34 | Jim Duke's personal files.* |
| CALCIUM | 28 | Seed | 160.0 | 4100.0 | -0.01 | Jim Duke's personal files.* |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Prooxidant | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Propecic | 6 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prostaglandigenic | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prostaglandin-Sparer | 1 | Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990. |
| Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Quinone-Reductase-Inducer | 1 | Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103. |
| Respirodepressant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Retinoprotectant Optometry | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Rodenticide | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Scabicide | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Schizophrenigenic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Secretogogue | 1 | Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp. |
| Sedative | 6 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Serotoninergic | 3 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Soap | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Spermicide | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Spermigenic | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Spinoconvulsant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Sunscreen | 8 | Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993. |