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
PYRIDOXINE	43	Seed	0.0	11.0	1.20	Jim Duke's personal files.*
PYRROLIDINE	1	Seed	not available	0.9	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RAFFINOSE	1	Seed	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.
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Seed	1.0	9.0	2.10	Jim Duke's personal files.*
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Stem	27.0	28.0	1.39	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLATES	7	Seed	not available	0.0	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLIC-ACID	34	Shoot	not available	1.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONARIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
SAPONARIN	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SATIOMEM	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCOPOLETIN	44	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.
SCOPOLETIN	44	Protoplast	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM	60	Stem	not available	24.0	2.71	Duke, 1992 *
SERINE	1	Seed	not available	5000.0	-1.07	Jim Duke's personal files.*
SILICON	4	Stem	not available	34.0	-0.86	Duke, 1992 *
SILICON-DIOXIDE	0	Seed	5000.0	9000.0	1.00	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
SINAPIC-ACID	9	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.
SODIUM	1	Sprout Seedling	not available	256.0	-1.07	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.
SODIUM	1	Stem	not available	2240.0	2.21	Duke, 1992 *
SPERMINE	1	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.

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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).