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
N-METHYL-TYRAMINE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-METHYL-TYRAMINE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-METHYL-TYRAMINE	1	Sprout Seedling	not available	48.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOXANTHIN	2	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.
NH3	0	Seed	not available	8130.0	0.61	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Seed	17.0	115.0	2.16	Jim Duke's personal files.*
NIACIN	39	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
O-HYDROXYCINNAMIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
OCHROTOXIN-A	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	1325.0	14575.0	-0.86	Jim Duke's personal files.*
ORIENTIN	4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
ORIENTIN-7-O-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
ORYZANOL	0	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.
OXALACETIC-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.
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMAROYL-AGMATINE	0	Shoot	not available	2.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	13	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
P-OXYBENZOIC-ACID	0	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.

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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).