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Table 3 Number of use reports (URs), number of species, CI, and FIC values for each medicinal use categorya

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

Medicinal use categories

Georgia

Turkey

 

♯ UR (%)

♯ of spp.

CI

FIC

♯ UR (%)

♯ of spp.

CI

FIC

Skin

163 (19.31%)

45

3.62

0.73

193 (29.15%)

47

2.61

0.76

Digestive

203 (24.05%)

51

4.51

0.75

128 (19.34%)

44

1.73

0.66

Respiratory

105 (12.44%)

37

2.33

0.65

75 (11.33%)

34

1.01

0.55

Cardiovascular

100 (11.85%)

50

2.22

0.51

69 (10.42%)

37

0.93

0.47

Muscle-skeletal

73 (8.65%)

25

1.62

0.67

58 (8.76%)

22

0.78

0.63

Genitourinary

69 (8.18%)

35

1.53

0.50

55 (8.31%)

34

0.74

0.39

Ghus

56 (6.64%)

37

1.24

0.35

23 (3.47%)

20

0.31

0.14

Endocrine

39 (4.62%)

24

0.87

0.39

35 (5.29%)

22

0.47

0.38

Neurological

11 (1.30%)

10

0.24

0.10

11 (1.66%)

10

0.15

0.10

Psychological

15 (1.78%)

5

0.33

0.71

2 (0.30%)

2

0.03

–

Blood

6 (0.71%)

4

0.13

0.40

7 (1.06%)

7

0.09

–

Eye

4 (0.47%)

3

0.09

0.33

4 (0.60%)

3

0.05

0.33

Ear

–

4

–

–

2 (0.30%)

2

0.03

–

Total

844 (100%)

126b

18.8

 

662 (100%)

109b

8.95

0.76

  1. aUse categories were ranked in accordance of importance based on mean CI values
  2. bAs some species are cited in more than one use categories, these numbers (126 and 109) indicating the number of species recorded in Turkey and in Georgia are lower than the total of number of species recorded for each medicinal use category
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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

ISSN: 1746-4269

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