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
CIS-BETA-OCIMENE	0	Pericarp Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRAL	53	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CITRIC-ACID	23	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
COPPER	12	Fruit	1.0	9.0	-0.30	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CRATAEGOLIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
D-GALACTOSE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
D-GALACTURONIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
DECANOIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER	0	Fruit	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-CADINENE	9	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-CADINENE	9	Pericarp Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-ELEMENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIISOPROPYL-DISULFIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIMETHYL-DISULFIDE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIMETHYL-SULFONE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIMETHYL-TRISULFIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DODECANOIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ELLAGIC-ACID	51	Bark	not available	8000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ELLAGIC-ACID	51	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ELLAGIC-ACID	51	Fruit	not available	520.0	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
ELLAGIC-ACID	51	Leaf	not available	150.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Urine-Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Varroacide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	11	Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor	3	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vermifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vibriocide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	9	Hatano, T., Yasuhara, T., Yoshihara, R., Agata, I., Noro, T., and Okuda, T. 1989. Effects of Interaction of Tannins with Co-existing Substances.VII. Inhibitory Effects of Tannins Related Polyphenols on Xanthine Oxidase. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(5): 1224-1229