Economic Botany Herbarium Details

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Economic Botany Herbarium Details

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Barcode: CAL0000003246

Family: POACEAE

Scientific Name: Hordeum vulgare L.

Collector: D. Prain

Country: India

Uses: Grain used in the dietary of invalids and convalescents. Barley water used as a diuretic and demulcent drink. Powdered grain much employed in the form of a gruel in cases of painful and atonic dyspepsia.