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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Psidium guajava (Myrtaceae)

Common Names
Guava
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ACETONE 3 Fruit 8000.0 *
ACETYLFURAN 0 Fruit *
ACUTISSIMIN-A 0 Bark 857.1 *
ACUTISSIMIN-B 0 Bark 3.7 *
ALANINE 3 Fruit 410.0 2952.0 -0.30 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALPHA-AMYRIN 10 Fruit *
ALPHA-AMYRIN-ACETATE 2 Fruit *
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Fruit 6000.0 2.41 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Pericarp Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID 15 Fruit 710.0 5112.0 1.16 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Essential Oil *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Leaf Essent. Oil 378000.0 1.33 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Pericarp Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-SELINENE 3 Fruit 1000.0 1.65 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Pericarp Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL ACETATE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
AMRITOSIDE 0 Heart Wood *
AMRITOSIDE 0 Leaf 850.0 *
AMRITOSIDE 0 Stem Bark 40.0 *
ARABAN 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiproteolytic 1 *
Antipruritic 3 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Antipsoriac 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipsychotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antipurpuric 1 *
Antipyretic 5 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular 7 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiRaynaud's 3 *
Antirenitic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiretardation 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiretinopathic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiretinotic 1 *
Antiretroviral 1 *
Antirheumatic 8 Martindale's 28th
Antirheumatitic? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antirhinitic 1 *
Antirhinoviral 1 Denyer, C.V., Jackson, P., Loakes, D.M., Ellis, M.R., and Yound, D.A.B. Isolation of Antirhinoviral Sesquiterpenes From Ginger (Zingiber officinale). Journal of Natural Products, 57(5): 658-662, 1994.
Antisalmonella 2 *
Antisarcomic 1 *
Antiscoliotic 1 *