Medicinal plants used to treat the most frequent diseases encountered in Ambalabe rural community, Eastern Madagascar

Table 6 Comparison of the present study to other studies conducted in Ambalabe and in Madagascar: species considered are those used for the six frequent diseases

		Present study	Rabearivony et al. [7]	Rakotonandrasana [39]	Razafindraibe [8]	Quansah [19]	Nicolas [38]
Total number of species		83	62	22	65	7	81
Common species used			20	2	12	4	9
Number of species per disease	Bilharzia	6	7	0	0	0	1
	Cough	14	12	9	18	0	20
	Diarrhea	32	20	6	21	2	41
	Dysentery	6	0	0	6	3	28
	Malaria	13	14	5	25	0	17
	Stomach-ache	30	25	4	12	3	10

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