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
P-OXYCINNAMIC-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.
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	370.0	4070.0	-0.62	Jim Duke's personal files.*
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Seed	2.0	12.0	-0.50	Jim Duke's personal files.*
PENTOSANS	0	Plant	83000.0	239000.0	1.34	Jim Duke's personal files.*
PHOSPHORUS	4	Plant	2300.0	6900.0	1.59	Jim Duke's personal files.*
PHOSPHORUS	4	Seed	1890.0	9200.0	1.02	Jim Duke's personal files.*
PHOSPHORUS	4	Stem	not available	5950.0	2.57	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLOQUINONE	5	Seed	not available	0.1	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTATE	0	Seed	1640.0	10000.0	-0.31	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTIC-ACID	9	Seed	5600.0	11500.0	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTIN	0	Seed	not available	12000.0	-0.59	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Sprout Seedling	not available	2340.0	1.48	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
PIPERIDINE	10	Seed	not available	1.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PLASTOHYDROQUINONE-9	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PLASTOHYDROQUINONE-9	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PLASTOHYDROQUINONE-9	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PLASTOQUINONE	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.
PLASTOQUINONE 9	0	Leaf	not available	not available	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
Antifuruncular	1	Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastritic	4	Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic	4	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglycosuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigout	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigrey	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihangover	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic	2	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antihemorrhagic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihemorrhoidal	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatitic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).