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    The document discusses the medicinal properties and health benefits of guava leaves. It notes that guava leaves contain compounds like cineol, tannins, triterpenes, and flavonoids that can help treat skin infections, protect against UV radiation, regulate blood sugar, and have anticancer effects. Several studies have validated the traditional medicinal claims of guava leaves and identified compounds like quercetin, catechin, and gallic acid that may be responsible for its health benefits. Future research should further investigate the bioactive compounds in guava leaves to develop natural therapeutic agents.

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    The document discusses the medicinal properties and health benefits of guava leaves. It notes that guava leaves contain compounds like cineol, tannins, triterpenes, and flavonoids that can help treat skin infections, protect against UV radiation, regulate blood sugar, and have anticancer effects. Several studies have validated the traditional medicinal claims of guava leaves and identified compounds like quercetin, catechin, and gallic acid that may be responsible for its health benefits. Future research should further investigate the bioactive compounds in guava leaves to develop natural therapeutic agents.

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    The document discusses the medicinal properties and health benefits of guava leaves. It notes that guava leaves contain compounds like cineol, tannins, triterpenes, and flavonoids that can help treat skin infections, protect against UV radiation, regulate blood sugar, and have anticancer effects. Several studies have validated the traditional medicinal claims of guava leaves and identified compounds like quercetin, catechin, and gallic acid that may be responsible for its health benefits. Future research should further investigate the bioactive compounds in guava leaves to develop natural therapeutic agents.

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    CHAPTER I

    Background of the Study

    Recently, there has been a lot of attention focused on producing medicines and products

    that are natural. People are focusing in herbal plants especially those who are common in the

    environment. Today, there is increasing interest in studying of plants regarding their chemical

    components of bioactive compounds, their effects on several diseases, and their use for human

    health as functional foods or nutraceuticals. One of the common herbal plant is the guava plant

    (Psidium guajava Linn) that help to treat and manage various diseases. Guava (Psidium guajava

    Linn.) is commonly known for its food and nutritional values throughout the world. The

    leaves of guava contain an essential oil rich in cineol, tannins, triterpenes, flavonoids, resin,

    eugenol, malic acid, fat, cellulose, chlorophyll, mineral salts, and a number of other fixed

    substances. The guava plant is native to Central America, Mexico, and South America and is

    now being grown in the tropics and subtropics of Africa, Southeast Asia, South Asia and other

    regions. This plant is good for healing and treating wounds and other skin infections. People,

    researchers, scientists were focusing to medicinal plants. They want to prove that there are plants

    that are more effective against diseases especially in skin. Most of the people know about the

    health benefits of guava fruit but not aware of the fact that even guava leaves have several

    medicinal properties and offer an array of health benefits. Guava leaves can protect your skin

    against ultraviolet radiation, a major environmental factor in skin wrinkle formation and hyper

    pigmentation. Nowadays, having skin infections is a common problem among the teenagers and

    adults. This is caused by the exposure of skin from dirt, dust, pollution, and other things that can

    result to skin reaction. Based on other studies, these infections can be cured by making use guava

    leaf extract. It is also known to protect us from cardiac disorder and have anticancer effects.
    Another effect of the extract is that it helps a regulation of blood sugar after eating. According to

    some experiments held in a university hospital, it is proven that a guava leaf extracts had given

    improvements to some of the nose related problems and illness. So, guava leaf extract have many

    health aiding effects based on many researches and experiments. In recent years, guava leaves

    tea and some complementary guava products are available in several shops in Japan as well as on

    the Internet, because guava leaf phenolic compounds have been claimed to be food for specified

    health use (FOSHU), since they have beneficial health effects related to the modulation of

    blood–sugar level. Guava fruit today is considered minor in terms of commercial world trade, but

    it is widely grown in the tropics, enriching the diet of hundreds of millions of people in those

    areas of the world.

    Traditional claims generally require experimental research to establish their effectiveness.

    In this regard, ethnomedicine applications of Psidium guajava L. leaves have been verified by

    several researches over the last decade against many disorders, demonstrating its potential in the

    treatment of the most common worldwide diseases. In addition, the effects of the leaves have

    been related to individual compounds such as quercetin, catechin, vescalagin, gallic acid,

    peltatoside, hyperoside, isoquercitrin, and guaijaverin.

    Future prospects should be aimed at investigating the biodiversity of guava and/or the

    purification of the different compounds present in guava leaves in order to obtain functional

    ingredients for further uses as alternative agents in natural therapeutic approaches.

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