Arquivos de Biotecnologia Médica

Study on Guava Leaves Extract: A Folk Medicine

Ratul Deb*

Antibiotics are generally used to kill micro-organisms. But nowadays, micro-organisms showed resistance against many antibiotics like benzyl penicillin, methicillin, vancomycin etc. To overcome this problem, we are in need of natural products with antimicrobial activity, as it shows no side effects like the antibiotics. The guava (Psidium guajava) is a phyto-therapeutic plant and it helps in various fields like treatment and manages of various diseases like malaria, gastroenteritis, vomiting, diarrhea, dysentery, wounds, ulcers, and a number of other conditions. As some of these diseases are due to bacterial infection, we in the present study try to evaluate the antibacterial activity of guava leaves extract. Myeloid leukemia’s continue to be difficult to treat at this time too even various medicines is in the relevant field. Novel therapeutic strategies that exclusively target cells as well as various malignant cells. In search for natural product-based anticancer agent I have tried to evaluate the effect of guava leaf extract on Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) cells. The preliminary studies showed potent anti-CML activity.