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Table 1 Assigned medicinal use categories for reported ailments and uses

From: Medicinal ethnobotany of wild plants: a cross-cultural comparison around Georgia-Turkey border, the Western Lesser Caucasus

Medicinal use categories

Ailments/Uses

Digestive

Constipation, diarrhea, dysentery, gastrointestinal infection, indigestion, liver disease, stomach ache, tooth bleaching, tooth inflammation, toothache, worm, clean intestine, gall disease, intestinal disease, jaundice, ulcer (mouth, stomach), induce vomiting, prevent vomiting

Respiratory

Asthma, bronchitis, cold, cough, influenza, lung disease, throat ache, throat inflammation, tonsil, shortness of breath, expectoration, nasal obstruction, mumps, quinsy

Cardiovascular

Vasodilator, hemorrhoids, heart disease, high blood pressure, varicose vein, blood circulation

Skin

Antiseptic, blister, boil, bruises, burn, eczema, irritation, wart, wound, antifungal, itching, belief (wart), psoriasis, rash, insect and snake bites, bleeding wound, skin care complaints, callus, chap, hair care complaints (dandruff, hair loss, wash and growth), herpes, inflammation

Endocrine

Diabetes, thyroid, increase milk supply, loss of appetite, sexual development (induce estrogen level)

General health and unspecified

Allergy, cleaning organs, fever, general disease, good for health, measles, tiredness and weakness, tuberculosis, vitamin deficiency, cancer, chickenpox, feeling ill, pain killer, sunstroke

Genitourinary

High menstrual bleeding, incontinence urine, kidney disease, kidney pain, kidney stone, prostate, urinary disease, vaginal discharge, women disease (infertility, inflammation), abortion, diuretic, bladder infection, man disease (infertility), menstruation problems, menopausal complaint

Muscle-skeletal

back pain, bone and joint pain, rheumatism, sprain, knee ache, fracture, cramp, footsoreness, induce synovia, numbness in arm, rachitic

Eye

Eye diseases, good for eyes, hypopyon

Ear

Earache

Blood

Anemia, cleansing blood, hematinic, iron deficiency

Neurological

Headache, dizziness, epilepsy, increase memory, nervous disease

Psychological

Relaxing, sedative, sleep disorders