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Table 23 The distribution of plant families and genera used treat each disease and disease category in Peru, Mali, and the combined medicinal flora of the two areas. Those distributions with a significant difference based on a log-likelihood ratio test (G-test) are marked with a footnote, all other pairwise comparisons of categories or diseases are not significantly different.

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

 

Mali

Peru

Combined

 

Families

Genera

Families

Genera

Families

Genera

Disease

n

percent of present

n

percent of present

n

percent of present

n

percent of present

n

percent of present

n

percent of present

Parasitic

23

36.51%

38

16.89%

24

12.44%

27

2.37%

35b

17.59%

58cd

4.57%

   Malaria

19

30.16%

32

14.22%

9

4.66%

9

0.79%

25

12.56%

39

3.07%

   Trypanosomesa

13

20.63%

15

6.67%

15

7.77%

18

1.58%

22

11.06%

30

2.36%

Chagas

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

4

2.07%

5

0.44%

4

2.01%

13

1.02%

Leishmaniasis

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

11

5.70%

13

1.14%

11

5.53%

5

0.39%

   Autoimmune

26

41.27%

40

17.78%

28

14.51%

39

3.43%

41

20.60%

75c

5.91%

Diabetes

15

23.81%

19

8.44%

19

9.84%

22

1.93%

32

16.08%

41

3.23%

Asthma

13

20.63%

17

7.56%

12

6.22%

12

1.05%

22

11.06%

28

2.20%

Eczema

17

26.98%

20

8.89%

9

4.66%

10

0.88%

23

11.56%

29

2.28%

   Fibroids

20

31.75%

26

11.56%

12

6.22%

13

1.14%

26b

13.07%

36d

2.83%

  1. a Trypanosomes includes Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, and African sleeping sickness.
  2. b The combined plant families of Peru and Mali used to treat uterine fibroids and parasitic diseases had a significant difference with p = 0.01911
  3. c The combined plant genera of Peru and Mali used to treat autoimmune and parasitic diseases had a significant difference with p = 0.03987
  4. d The combined plant genera of Peru and Mali used to treat uterine fibroids and parasitic diseases had a significant difference with p = 0.04909