Hordeum vulgare information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant

Question



Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hordeum vulgare?

If you know websites containing any information about Hordeum vulgare please link to them.

Answer 1



Here is some basic information about Hordeum vulgare and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Hordeum vulgare.

 

Hordeum vulgare basic info

Scientific Name: Hordeum vulgare L..

Family: Poaceae.

Genus: Hordeum.

Common names in English: barley, wild barley.

For common names of Hordeum vulgare in different languages - See link

Description: Hordeum vulgare L. or Barley, is a major cereal grain. It was one of the first cultivated grains and is now grown widely. Barley grain is a staple in Tibetan cuisine and was eaten widely by peasants in Medieval Europe. - for more info about Hordeum vulgare See link

 

Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Hordeum vulgare

• Abortifacient
• Antilactogogue
• Bladder
• Bronchitis
• Burn
• Cancer
• Cancer(Stomach)
• Catarrh
• Chest
• Chilblain
• Coffee
• Cough
• Debility
• Demulcent
• Diarrhea
• Digestive
• Diuretic
• Dyspepsia
• Emollient
• Expectorant
• Fever
• Inflammation
• Intoxicant
• Measles
• Phthisis
• Poultice
• Preventative(Gray-Hair)
• Preventitive(Fever)
• Puerperium
• Sore
• Stomachic
• Tumor(Abdomen)
• Urogenital
• Febrifuge

*The information in this list is based on the ethnobotanical data in Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases.

Dr. Duke does not recommend using this information for self diagnosis or self medication. - See link

 

Hordeum vulgare in other websites

Hordeum vulgare common names, economics importance, distributional range and more in the USDA GRIN website - See link.

Search PubMed (US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health) for academic researches with the search term Hordeum vulgare - See link.

See if there is something in Youtube on the term Hordeum vulgare - See link.