%0 Journal Article %T Validaci¨®n de 2 m¨¦todos espectrofotom¨¦tricos para la cuantificaci¨®n de taninos y flavonoides (quercetina) en Psidium guajaba, L. %A Guti¨¦rrez Gait¨¦n %A Yamilet Irene %A Miranda Mart¨ªnez %A Migdalia %A Varona Torres %A Noel %A Rodr¨ªguez %A Aida Tania %J Revista Cubana de Farmacia %D 2000 %I ECIMED %X we validated two spectrometric methods that facilitate to quantify tannins and flavonoids in a raw drug from psidium guajaba l. since literature does not provide official methods for quantifying such compounds from this plant. it was determined that both methods (tungsten-molybdic-phosphoric method for tannins by miranda m., and spectrophotometric method for total flavonoids expressed as quercentin by kostennikova z as modified by m¨¦ndez g.) meet all the proposed validating requirement for a quality chemical control of the species (linearity, precision (repeatability and reproducibility) accuracy and specificity). %K spectophotometry [methods] %K tannins [analysis] %K quercetin [analysis] %K plant leaves. %U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-75152000000100007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en