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Table 22 A summary of the significance of the the Jaccard similarity (Sim.) and odds ratio (OR) for the families and genera of plants used to treat each disease category between the Asháninka and Malinké being higher than the general flora similarity and odds ratio between the Asháninka and Malinké (: p < 0.1, : p < 0.05, : p < 0.0001, NS: not significant, p > 0.1)

From: A quantitative synthesis of the medicinal ethnobotany of the Malinké of Mali and the Asháninka of Peru, with a new theoretical framework

 

Families

Genera

Diseases

Sim.

OR

Sim.

OR

All studied

   Parasitic

Trypanosomal

NS

Malaria

NS

NS

NS

   Auto-immune

NS

NS

NS

Eczema

NS

NS

NS

Diabetes

NS

NS

NS

NS

Asthma

NS

NS

NS

   Uterine fibroids

NS

NS