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Table 26 The calculation of the disease-treating potential Ps,d,cfor the hypothetical example of plant species A, B, and C being used to treat diseases X and Y in culture M.

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

Culture M

Plants

A

B

C

Diseases

   

X

0.316

0.268

0.230

Y

0.313

0.346

0.312

Plant total

0.629

0.614

0.542

Normalized (1/ND = 0.5)

0.314

0.307

0.271

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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

ISSN: 1746-4269

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