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
BUTANOIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER	0	Fruit	not available	87000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTANONE	0	Fruit	not available	22000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTYL-ACETATE	0	Fruit	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTYRALDEHYDE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALAMENENE	0	Pericarp Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Fruit	90.0	1582.0	-0.52	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM-OXALATE	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM-OXALATE	4	Leaf	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.
CAMPHENE	9	Pericarp Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Fruit	95000.0	901000.0	0.63	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Pericarp Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE	8	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE	8	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Morton, J.F., Major Medicinal Plants. 1977. Atlas of Medicinal Plants of Middle America. Bahamas to Yucatan. 1981.
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE	8	Pericarp Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CASUARICTIN	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CASUARININ	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CATECHOL-TANNINS	0	Leaf	40000.0	75000.0	-1.41	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CHLORINE	7	Fruit	not available	40.0	-0.67	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CINNAMYL-ACETATE	3	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.

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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 *