Skip to main content

Table 4 FL values for the most cited medicinal plants

From: Medicinal plants sold for treatment of bacterial and parasitic diseases in humans in Maputo city markets, Mozambique

Plant

Disease

Np

Ns

FL

Terminalia sericea Burch. ex DC.

Diarrhea

10

11

0.91

Helminthiases

2

11

0.18

Haemorrhoids

1

11

0.09

Wounds

1

11

0.09

Dysentery

1

11

0.09

Elephantorrhiza elephantina (Burch.) Skeels

Diarrhea

7

8

0.88

Cough

3

8

0.38

Helminthiases

1

8

0.25

Tuberculosis

1

8

0.13

Dysentery

1

8

0.13

Haemorrhoids

1

8

0.13

Tiliacora funifera (Miers) Oliv.

Helminthiases

5

9

0.56

Diarrhea

4

9

0.44

Hypoxis hemerocallidea Fisch. & C.A. Mey

Diarrhea

6

8

0.75

Wounds

2

8

0.25

Helminthiases

1

8

0.13

Dysentery

1

8

0.13

UTI

1

8

0.13

Haemorrhoids

1

8

0.13