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
CALCIUM	28	Sprout Seedling	not available	720.0	-0.58	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.
CALCIUM	28	Stem	not available	11000.0	-0.84	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
CALMODULIN	1	Cotyledon	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALMODULIN	1	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Sprout Seedling	not available	330.0	1.00	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CANDICINE	4	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Plant	265000.0	785000.0	0.73	Jim Duke's personal files.*
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Seed	608000.0	868000.0	1.37	Jim Duke's personal files.*
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Stem	not available	801000.0	0.72	Duke, 1992 *
CATECHIN	43	Leaf	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.
CELLULOSE	1	Plant	190000.0	322000.0	0.14	Jim Duke's personal files.*
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	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.
CHOLINE	20	Seed	928.0	1617.0	-0.05	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Stem	not available	31.0	3.46	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSOERIOL-7-GALACTOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSOERIOL-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRININ	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Stem	not available	49.0	1.45	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Seed	1.0	20.0	0.47	Jim Duke's personal files.*

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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
Anticarcinogenic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticardiospasmic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarpal-Tunnel	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract	8	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticellulitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticephalagic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic	5	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiCFS	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticheilitic	5	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antichoreic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticirrhotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticlastogen	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticlaudificant?	1	Martindale's 29th
Anticlimacteric	4	Duke, 1992 *
Anticoagulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticoeliac	1	Martindale's 28th