Medicinal Value of Psidium guajava Linn Leaves: Phytochemical Analysis and Folk Use in Dysentery Treatment

Abstract

Present work is dealing with the study of Psidium guajava Linn plant’s Leaves (PGL). The juice of the plant is applicable to medicinal use for the purpose of getting rid of the dysentery (more specifically in animals). In this context, this research for investigation of the leaves was carried by using high performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC) technique to obtain their fingerprint of the phytochemicals present in it. Present study is reported the eleven (11) peaks in the screening of phytochemicals for the PGL collected first time from the Konkan region (western ghat’s part) of Maharashtra located near 17.98ᵒN, 73.47ᵒE in the map of India. Study further extended confirmed favorable outcomes over the use in treating the animal dysentery by the survey of local folk and by the antibacterial examination of PGL leaves.