Figure 1.
A transnational comparison of knowledge about food and nonfood medicinal plants between NYC and DR.
Data is presented as square root transformation of the mean number of medicinal plants ± s.e.m. that were reported for thirty common health conditions by lay persons in NYC and DR who self-medicate with medicinal plants (N = 165 in NYC and N = 128 in DR).
Table 1.
MANCOVA test of between-subjects effects in relation to knowledge of food and nonfood plants used as medicines by Dominicans.
Figure 2.
Relationship between age and knowledge of food and nonfood medicines.
2A: NYC subsample of interview participants who grew up in urban DR (N = 81); 2B: NYC subsample of interview participants who grew up in rural DR (N = 83); 2C: DR subsample of interview participants who are currently living in urban DR (N = 65); 2D: DR subsample of interview participants who are currently living in rural DR (N = 63).