TY - JOUR AU - ALhaidari, Samir Ahmed Ali AU - Abdullah, Qais AU - Al-Deen, Aziza M. Taj AU - Al-Hadi, Fatima A. AU - Mahbashi, Anas AL AU - Al-Kaf, Ali Gamal AU - Al-Dubai, Fouad A. PY - 2019/05/05 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - ANTIMICROBIAL AND ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF PSIDIUM GUAJAVA. (GUAVA) MEDICINAL PLANT LEAVES USED IN FOLK MEDICINE FOR TREATMENT OF WOUNDS AND BURNS IN HUFASH DISTRICT AL MAHWEET GOVERNORATE–YEMEN JF - Universal Journal of Pharmaceutical Research JA - Univ J Pharm Res VL - 4 IS - 2 SE - Research Articles DO - 10.22270/ujpr.v4i2.250 UR - https://www.ujpr.org/index.php/journal/article/view/250 SP - AB - <p><strong>Objective:</strong> <em>Psidium guajava</em> (PG) belongs to the family Myrtaceae that is believed to have active components that help to treat conditions like malaria, gastroenteritis, vomiting, diarrhea, dysentery, wounds, ulcers, toothache, coughs, sore throat, inflamed gums, and a number of other condition. The objective of current study was phytochemical screening of chemical constituents of <em>Psidium guajava</em> extract.<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> In this study methanolic and aqueous extracts of one plant namely <em>Psidium guajava</em>, were screened for the presence of phytochemical constituents and tested for their antimicrobial and antioxidant activity.<br /><strong>Results:</strong> TLC tests conducted revealed Rf values in the leaves for alkaloids, Flavonoids, Tannins, Phenols and Saponins(0.96-0.97-0.99-0.97-0.99) respectively. The antimicrobial activity extracts against four bacterial isolates <em>Staphylococcus aureus</em>, <em>Escherichia coli</em>,<em> Pseudomonas aeruginosa</em> and <em>Klebsiella</em> sp. and a single fungal isolate Candida albicans with concentrations (0.5 mg/ml, and 1,0 mg/ml) of the extract were added to the disc and respective solvent was used as negative control. The antioxidative activity of leaf was evaluated by using 1,1- diphenyl-2 picrylhydrazyl (DPPH), the results showed are 88.4%, highest from standard, ascorbic acid 87.5%.<br /><strong>Conclusion:</strong> The qualitative phytochemical analysis revealed the results showed presence of alkaloids, terpenoids, glycosides, resins, saponins, tannins, flavonoids, phenols, and amino acid were present in the methanol extract, with absence of glycosides, and amino acids in the aqueous extracts in leaves plant.</p><p>                              <img src="https://ujpr.org/public/site/images/drkkc/r22.gif" /></p><p><strong>Peer Review History: </strong></p><p><strong>Received </strong>1 February 2019;<strong>   Revised </strong>13 March;<strong> Accepted </strong>27 April;<strong> Available online </strong>15 May 2019</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Academic Editor: </strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Dr. Iman Muhammad Higazy<em><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4200-0418" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://ujpr.org/public/site/images/editor/orcid22.jpg" /></a></em></strong>, National Research Center, Egypt, <em>imane.higazy@hotmail.com</em></p><p><strong>Received file:<a href="http://ujpr.org/2019/4-2-r2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://ujpr.org/public/site/images/drkk/blue_23983.gif" /></a>                Reviewer's Comments:<a href="http://ujpr.org/2019/4-2-r2-comments.doc" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://ujpr.org/public/site/images/drkk/download_logo_r_29189.gif" /></a></strong></p><p><strong>Average Peer review marks at initial stage:</strong> 5.5/10</p><p><strong>Average Peer review marks at publication stage:</strong> 7.5/10</p><p><strong>Reviewer(s) detail:</strong></p><p><strong>Ahmad Najib<a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5055-7964" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://ujpr.org/public/site/images/editor/orcid22.jpg" /></a></strong>, Universitas Muslim Indonesia, Makassar, Indonesia, <em>ahmad.najib@umi.ac.id</em></p><p><strong>Dr. Md. Shahidul Islam<a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1530-3090" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://ujpr.org/public/site/images/editor/orcid22.jpg" /></a></strong>, USTC, Chittagong, Bangladesh, <em>S_i_liton@yahoo.com</em><em><br /></em></p><p><strong>Similar Articles:</strong></p><p><a href="http://ujpr.org/index.php/journal/article/view/254" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PHYTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS AND ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF COLOCASIA ESCULENTA (TARO) MEDICINAL PLANT LEAVES USED IN FOLK MEDICINE FOR TREATMENT OF WOUNDS AND BURNS IN HUFASH DISTRICT AL MAHWEET GOVERNORATE–YEMEN</a></p> ER -