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 |
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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 sSore | 2 | 1 | 2 | titij | mojmosh | mojmosh | |
Injury | 2 | 2 | 4 | yantes | Ijmeme, itsi | shiveñi | yantes |
Knee pain | 2 | - | - | ||||
Post labor | 2 | - | - | ||||
Hemorrhage | 2 | - | - |