Plant Details

Accepted name:: Hordeum vulgare L. [Poaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants
Infraspecies:: 4

Hordeum vulgare nothosubsp. intermedium Körn.

Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum (K.Koch) Asch. & Graebn.

Hordeum vulgare subsp. distichon (L.) Körn.

Hordeum vulgare subsp. vulgare

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
akkatam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
aksata	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
akshata	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
arad jao	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
aricikkotumai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
arpa	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
baarli	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bansa	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
barley	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Jamaican Root Tonics (Mitchell, 2011) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000) Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2024) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2025)
barley grass	Other	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2024) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2025)
barley sprout	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
barlhiarisi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
barli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
barli akki	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
barliarisi	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
barlibiyam	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
barliyarishi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
barliyarisi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
barliyayisi	Other	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
bear	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
beras belanda	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
bori	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
buudhai	Other	Useful Pl. of Wakhan & Pamir, Afghanistan (Soelberg, 2016)
cavvukkotumai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cebada	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016) Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019) Pl. Res. of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico (Casas et al., 2001) Tlayeyecolpahtli. Med. Experim., Mexico (Fernández Martínez et al., 2021)
cereal barley	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
cevad	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cheno	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
common barley	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
dhanuabhedam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dhanyabhedam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dhanyaraja	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dhānyarāja	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
divya	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
dà mài	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
evakkotu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
evataniyam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
extractum malti	Pharmaceutical	The Indian Pharmacop. List 1946 (Govt. of India, 1946)
fructus hordei germinatus	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Japanese Pharmacop., 17th edn. (2016-2019) Pharmacop. of China (2005)
fàn mài	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
germinated barley	Other	Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
gerste	Other	Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021)
hayapriya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
hayeshta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
hayeshtha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
hayeṣṭā	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
hordei fructus germinatus	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
hordei germinatus fructus	Pharmaceutical	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
hordeum vulgare whole	Other	Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024)
jab	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
jan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
jao	Other	Ethnophytomed. Against Diabetes, SE Asia (Marwat et al., 2014) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
jao muqashar nim kofta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jao shaeer	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
jaoo	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jau	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Ethnophytomed. Against Diabetes, SE Asia (Marwat et al., 2014) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Pl. for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
jav	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
java	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
javadhana	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
jave	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jave godhi	Other	Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
jave godi	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
jave-godhi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jave-godi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
javegambu	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
javegodhi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
javo	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
jaw	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jawa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jo	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
joa	Other	Med. Pl. in Arid Regions of N. Punjab, Pakistan (Ashfaq et al., 2019)
jow	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kanchuki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kancukin	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kattukkotumai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kirtári	Other	Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
klittári	Other	Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
korn	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
krithári	Other	Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
kulekhara	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
kung mai	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
kung mai nieh	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
luǒ mài	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
mai ya	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2022 (WHO-UMC, 2022)
maiya	Other	Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
malt	Other	Japanese Pharmacop., 17th edn. (2016-2019) The Indian Pharmacop. List 1946 (Govt. of India, 1946)
malt extract	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
malt syrup	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
malt.	Other	The Indian Pharmacop. List 1946 (Govt. of India, 1946)
malta	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
malte	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
maltum	Other	The Indian Pharmacop. List 1946 (Govt. of India, 1946)
medhya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mài yá	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
móu mài	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
nas	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
no mai	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
noble's barley	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
né	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
orzo	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
pachcha-yavulu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pachchayava	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pachhayava	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
parili	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
parli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
parliarici	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
parliyarici	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pavitradhanya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pearl barley	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
praveta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
saambaluppu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
saathu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
satu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sha'ir	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
shaair	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shaeer	Other	Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011)
shaeir	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017) Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
shair	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shaktu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shuka-dhaanya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
shvetashunga	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sitashuka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sitrishuka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
situshuka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
six-rowed barley	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
so ba	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
sowa	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
spike of barley	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
suj	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ta mai	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
tella tumma	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
tikshnashuka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
tiksnasuka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
turagapriya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tīkṣṇaśuka	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
varkotumai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vilattira	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
whisk(e)y	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
yau	Other	Useful Pl. of Wakhan & Pamir, Afghanistan (Soelberg, 2016)
yava	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
yava (fruit)	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
yava (whole plant)	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
yava dhanya	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
yavaalu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
yavah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
yavaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
yavala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
yavalu	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
yavam	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
yavataniyam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
yay	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
yirk	Other	Useful Pl. of Wakhan & Pamir, Afghanistan (Soelberg, 2016)
ō-mugi	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
κιρτάρι	Other	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
κλιττάρι	Other	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
κριθάρι	Other	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
буудай	Other	Useful Pl. of Wakhan & Pamir, Afghanistan (Soelberg, 2016)
ایرک	Other	Useful Pl. of Wakhan & Pamir, Afghanistan (Soelberg, 2016)
جو	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018) Useful Pl. of Wakhan & Pamir, Afghanistan (Soelberg, 2016)
ريعش	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
شعير	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Herbalists in Lebanon (Deeb et al., 2013) Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011) Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
බාර්ලි	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
ནས།	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
སོ་བ།	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
‫شعير‬	Other	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)
バクガ	Other	Japanese Pharmacop., 17th edn. (2016-2019)
倮麦	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
大麥	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021)
大麦	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
大麦秸	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
大麦苗	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
牟麦	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
饭麦	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
麥芽	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
麦芽	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
fruit	dried germinated ripe fruit	Pharmacop. of China (2010)
Seed		Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002)
seed	dried germinated grain	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Seed		Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000)
Fruit		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Seed		Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Roasted seeds		Jamaican Root Tonics (Mitchell, 2011)
Grains		Pl. for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018)
Fruit		Med. Pl. in Arid Regions of N. Punjab, Pakistan (Ashfaq et al., 2019)
Shoot tip, Sprout, Seed, Grass	Grass juice, Oil, Malt	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Seeds		Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
seed		Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
seed		Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
Fruit, whole plant		Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
caryopsis	dried and germinated ripe caryopsis	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
seeds		Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011)
sprouting caryopsis		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Seeds		Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
sprout		WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2022 (WHO-UMC, 2022)
Grains		The Indian Pharmacop. List 1946 (Govt. of India, 1946)
seeds		Tlayeyecolpahtli. Med. Experim., Mexico (Fernández Martínez et al., 2021)
seeds		Ethnophytomed. Against Diabetes, SE Asia (Marwat et al., 2014)
seed, fruit, aerial part		Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
barley, leaves, fruit	juice of young leaves, dried fruit, dried plant	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
seed, shoot tip, sprout, fruit	malt	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2024)
caryopsis	dried and germinated ripe caryopsis	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
caryopsis	dried and germinated ripe caryopsis	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021)
shoots, seeds		Med. Pl. Used by Herbalists in Lebanon (Deeb et al., 2013)
fruit, grass, malt, seed, shoot tip, sprout		WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2025)
caryopsis	dried ripe caryopsis	Japanese Pharmacop., 17th edn. (2016-2019)
fruit	dried germinated ripe fruit	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
seed		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
fruit	dried germinated ripe fruit	Pharmacop. of China (2005)
seed		Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
fruit	dried fruit	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
bud		Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)
fruit	dried fruit	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
seed		Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
Fruit (Seed)		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 5 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Frumentum hordeum E.H.L.Krause Bot. Centralbl. 73: 339 (1898), nom. superfl.
Hordeum polystichon var. vulgare (L.) Döll Rhein. Fl.: 67 (1843).
Hordeum sativum Jess. Deut. Excurs.-Fl.: 551 (1890), nom. superfl.
Hordeum sativum subsp. vulgare (L.) K.Richt. Pl. Eur. 1: 130 (1890).
Hordeum vulgare subsp. antasiaticum Bachteev Syst. Vozdel Yachmen: 6 (1964), not validly publ.

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Hordeum valgare	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Hordeum vulgare	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Ethnophytomed. Against Diabetes, SE Asia (Marwat et al., 2014) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. Pl. in Russia & C. Asia (Mamedov et al., 2005) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Tlayeyecolpahtli. Med. Experim., Mexico (Fernández Martínez et al., 2021) Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000) Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014) Useful Pl. of Wakhan & Pamir, Afghanistan (Soelberg, 2016)
Hordeum vulgare L.	Checklist of Korean Cult. Pl. (Mun-Chan et al., 1986) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) Ethnophytomed. Against Diabetes, SE Asia (Marwat et al., 2014) Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Jamaican Root Tonics (Mitchell, 2011) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013) Med. Pl. Used by Herbalists in Lebanon (Deeb et al., 2013) Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017) Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016) Med. Pl. in Arid Regions of N. Punjab, Pakistan (Ashfaq et al., 2019) Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019) Med. Pl. in Sardinia & Sicily: Sardinian Subset (Leonti et al., 2009) Med. Pl. in Sardinia & Sicily: Sicilian Subset (Leonti et al., 2009) Med. Pl. in the Medit.: Project Rubia (Gonzalez-Tejero et al., 2008) Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2024) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2025) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2022 (WHO-UMC, 2022) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Hordeum vulgare L. var. vulgare	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Hordeum vulgare Linn	The Indian Pharmacop. List 1946 (Govt. of India, 1946)
Hordeum vulgare Linn.	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Pl. for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
Hordeum vulgare Linné	Japanese Pharmacop., 17th edn. (2016-2019) Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)
Hordeum vulgaris L.	Pl. Res. of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico (Casas et al., 2001)
Hordeum vulgre Linn	Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)

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