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
PLASTOQUINONE 9	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PLASTOQUINONE 9	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PLASTOQUINONE 9	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POLYSACCHARIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Plant	19880.0	44000.0	1.55	Jim Duke's personal files.*
POTASSIUM	14	Seed	1600.0	9900.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Sprout Seedling	not available	6130.0	-1.62	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.
POTASSIUM	14	Stem	not available	25000.0	1.03	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-3	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PRODELPHINIDIN-B-3	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PRODELPHINIDIN-B-3-DIMER	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Root	57.0	219.0	-1.16	Duke, 1992 *
PROPELARGONIDIN-DIMER	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Plant	25000.0	344000.0	1.40	Jim Duke's personal files.*
PROTEIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	82000.0	212000.0	-0.19	Jim Duke's personal files.*
PROTEIN	0	Stem	not available	89000.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
PROTOCHLOROPHYLL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PUTRESCINE	0	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.

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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).