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
PLASTOQUINONE 9	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PLASTOQUINONE 9	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PLASTOQUINONE 9	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POLYSACCHARIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Plant	19880.0	44000.0	1.55	Jim Duke's personal files.*
POTASSIUM	14	Seed	1600.0	9900.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Sprout Seedling	not available	6130.0	-1.62	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.
POTASSIUM	14	Stem	not available	25000.0	1.03	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-3	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PRODELPHINIDIN-B-3	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PRODELPHINIDIN-B-3-DIMER	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Root	57.0	219.0	-1.16	Duke, 1992 *
PROPELARGONIDIN-DIMER	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Plant	25000.0	344000.0	1.40	Jim Duke's personal files.*
PROTEIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	82000.0	212000.0	-0.19	Jim Duke's personal files.*
PROTEIN	0	Stem	not available	89000.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
PROTOCHLOROPHYLL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PUTRESCINE	0	Sprout Seedling	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.

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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).