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.
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