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

Common Names

Guava

How this plant is used

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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
GUAVIN-C	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUAVIN-D	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-1-AL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-3-EN-1-OL-ACETATE	0	Pericarp Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL	0	Fruit	not available	10000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL-ACETATE	0	Fruit	not available	5000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-3-ENOIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	0.2	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXADECANOIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXAGALLOYL-GLUCOSE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXAN-1-AL	0	Fruit	not available	32000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXAN-1-OL-ACETATE	0	Pericarp Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXANOIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER	0	Fruit	not available	155000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXANOIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER	0	Fruit	not available	3000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
HEXYL-ACETATE	1	Fruit	not available	3000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HISTIDINE	7	Fruit	70.0	504.0	-0.85	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
HYPEROSIDE	30	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Fruit	3.0	73.0	-0.24	Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE	3	Fruit	300.0	2160.0	-0.44	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ISOQUERCETIN	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOSTRICTININ	0	Leaf	not available	30.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Elastase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	2	Martindale's 29th
Emollient	1	Martindale's 29th
Encephalopathic	1	Martindale's 29th
Enterocontractant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Enterorelaxant	2	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Essential	8	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant	7	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.
Fatal	1	Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic	1	Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor	25	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Floral-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
FPTase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fungicide	11	Duke, 1992 *
Fungiphilic	1	J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.