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Table 27 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 N.

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

Culture N

Plants

A

B

C

Diseases

   

X

0.328

0.271

0.272

Y

0.333

0.354

0.324

Plant total

0.661

0.625

0.596

Normalized (1/ND = 0.5)

0.330

0.313

0.298

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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

ISSN: 1746-4269

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