![Color image of a guava plant. The light green guava fruit is growing in the middle of a few dark green leaves. Color image of a guava plant. The light green guava fruit is growing in the middle of a few dark green leaves.](../../../../../assets/exhibition/detail/OB1690.jpeg)
Guava (Hawaiian name: Kuawa. Scientific name: Psidium guajava)
Guava is used as a juice in a concoction to help heal deep cuts, as a tea to cure headaches, as crushed leaves to revive a fainted person, and as chewed leaves to counteract diarrhea.
Courtesy National Library of Medicine, photo by Kauila Clark