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

Common Names

Guava

How this plant is used

Food

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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
Pesticide	46	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Pheromone	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Photosensitizer	1	Rinzler, C. A. 1990. The Complete Book of Herbs, Spices and Condiments. Facts on File, New York. 199 pp.
Phytohormonal	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Piscicide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Pituitary-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Potassium-Sparing	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Poultice	1	Martindale's 29th
Preservative	1	Merck 11th Edition
Prolactinogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	4	Chen, S. J., Wang, M. H., Chen, I. J. 1996. Antiplatelet and Calcium Inhibitory Properties of Eugenol and Sodium Eugenol Acetate. Gen Pharmacol, 27(4): 629-633.
Prostatitigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protease-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *