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
STARCH	5	Seed	not available	620000.0	1.25	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed	130.0	1430.0	-0.53	Jim Duke's personal files.*
STIGMASTEROL	12	Embryo	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL	12	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL	12	Sprout Seedling	not available	1010.0	1.12	Duke, 1992 *
SULFUR	14	Seed	not available	200.0	-1.32	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
SYRINGIC-ACID	6	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.
THIAMIN	31	Seed	1.0	10.0	0.81	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Stem	not available	13.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
TIN	4	Stem	not available	12.0	0.71	Duke, 1992 *
TOCOPHEROLS	0	Seed	56.0	71.0	-0.68	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
TRANS-FERULIC-ACID	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
TRICIN	9	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRICIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRIGONELLINE	15	Seed	not available	9.0	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTAMINE	4	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.
TRYPTOPHAN	29	Seed	1000.0	3000.0	-0.11	Jim Duke's personal files.*
TRYPTOPHAN	29	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TYRAMINE	11	Sprout Seedling	not available	26.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Antielastase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiemetic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiencephalitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiencephalopathic	5	Martindale's 29th
Antiendometriotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiendotoxic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antienterotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antienzymatic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiepileptic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antierythemic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiesherichic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiestrogenic	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifatigue	9	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antifeedant	6	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).