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
BETA-BISABOLENE	6	Fruit	not available	2000.0	0.75	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-BISABOLENE	6	Pericarp Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Fruit	0.8	46.0	-0.06	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-COPAENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
BETA-FARNESENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
BETA-HUMULENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-IONONE	13	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.
BETA-PINENE	13	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Pericarp Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SELINENE	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Heart Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	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.
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BRAHMIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTANAL	0	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.
BUTANEDIONE	0	Fruit	not available	20000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antifibrinolytic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrosarcomic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	7	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antifuruncular	1	Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastric	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastritic	4	Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglutamaergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigrey	1	Martindale's 29th
AntiGTF	2	Duke, 1992 *