Ethnomedicinal and Mechanism of Phytochemicals Activities ofPsidium Guajava Linn (Guava) Extracts

Abstract

Objective: The review focuses on the comprehensive analysis of the medicinal uses of
guava (Psidium guajava Linn) and relates it with different scientific investigations into
phytochemical constituents present in the plant.
Methods: Using search engines such as Wiley, NCBI, Google Scholar, Pubmed, and
Intechopen; scientific papers on the plant were searched, by searching for the relevant
keywords.
Results: Publications reviewed reported that extracts of the Guava plant (Psidium guajava
L.) contained phytochemicals that show antioxidant / hepatoprotective, anti-diabetic,
antidiarrhea, anti-cancer, anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory activities in pharmacological
studies, justifying its ethnomedicinal uses.
Conclusion: Psidium guajava possesses essential active organic compounds that are
viable in biomedical research for therapeutic studies. There should be increasing interest
in discovering new bioactive compounds from the plant through more research to harness
its potential for the treatment of diseases and serve as the basis for developing new drugs