Fig. 4From: An ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants used in the East Sepik province of Papua New GuineaCoded ailments treated with plant based traditional medicines across four study areas in East Sepik province in percentile of of total for each study area; BITE = insect or snake bite; BLOOD = hematological issues including coagulation; BONE = bone related injury or disease; CANC = cancer; CV = Cardiovascular; CHILD = childhood disease; DENT = dental disease; FEV = fever; GAST = gasteroenterological disease; HEAD = headache; INF = infection; MAGIC = disease of unidentified etiology; MAINT = health promotion, including failure to thrive; MAL = Malaria; NUT = nutritional supplement; OCC = ocular diseases; ORG = diseases thought to affect one particular organ; POIS = envenomation or poisoning; sometimes this includes transnatural causation; PSYCH = psychiatric diseases or syndromes; REP = reproductive diseases including childbirth related issues; RESP = respiratory diseases; SKIN = dermal related diseases; often includes infectious disease; SWELL = swelling of whole body or part of the body; WOUND = wound related diseases or syndromesBack to article page