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
Urinary-Acidulant	1	Martindale's 29th
Urine-Acidifier	1	Martindale's 28th
Urine-Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterosedative	2	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
UV-Screen	2	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Vasoconstrictor	3	Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
Vasodilator	6	Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Vasoprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	8	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).