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. 2016 Nov 22;45(Suppl 3):263–275. doi: 10.1007/s13280-016-0826-1

Table 3.

Information on ailments reported in the health survey (columns A and B), and the knowledge of medicinal plants reported that could be used to treat them in free-listings and knowledge survey (columns C–H). Each row corresponds to the set of medicinal plants reported by ailment, where Columns C, E, G are plants reported by women and D, F, H are the plants reported by men. Columns C–H are used as indicators of functional knowledge redundancy

A B C D E F G H
Ailments Report frequency No. of plants reported by in FL as treatment No. of plants reported by ♂ in FL as treatment Most frequently reported plants by in FL as treatment Most frequently reported plants by ♂ in FL as treatment Plants reported exclusively by Plants reported exclusively by ♂
Cold 211 18 16 ere’, shepi shepi, chorecho coti, cravu ashashaj
Fever 62 2 3 shepi bejqui, viyucure bejqui viyucure
Cough 41 6 7 tamtac, saute tamtac, saute shepi’is
Backpain 33 3 3 vambason macha vambason macha
Diarrhea 32 16 16 oveto’, vambason oveto’, chura’
Headache 30 7 2 saute, shepi, rovocdyes, viyujcure, vujnare chito’, ufjare saute,shepi, rovocdyes, viyujcure, vujnare
Body ache 27 17 17 tamtac, rovocdyes, punuvacdyes morifi, saute vambason arara’, mashaty, potona
Stomach pain 16 8 10 tamtac, oveto’ tamtac, saute ujfare, vijsi
Fungus 11 9 12 tamtac, saute, conojfoto saute, tamtac jämecatidye, undye, uruuru
Chickenpox 11
Anemia 9
Vomit 5
Skin 4 1 1 tyi’ tyi’
Bewitchment 4 2 2 conojfoto, yän conojfoto, yän
Intestinal parasites 3 1 1 titij titij
Eye complaint 3 1 1 cajin’si cajin’si
Toothache 3
Boil/skin sore 2 1 2 titij mojmosh mojmosh
Injury 2 2 4 yantes Ijmeme, itsi shiveñi yantes
Knee pain 2
Post labor 2
Hemorrhage 2