Diversity of medicinal treatments provided through pica behavior.

1These data represent the distribution of types of medicinal treatments among those substances reported to be used for medicinal purposes. A given substance could be attributed to more than one medicinal use.2Total pica behavior includes geophagy and other non-foods, excluding amylophagy. These data refer to the frequencies with which respondents identified the use of a given pica substance being attributed to a given medicinal treatment.3The other category includes the following treatments in order of frequency: medicine for sore throats, for rotten teeth in children, against witchcraft, accidents and bad luck, for fatigue and muscle soreness, for raised and infected inflammations, enlarged testicles and/or bedwetting, anemia, healing the vagina after birth, and to induce an abortion. N.B. We have categorized diarrhea, bloody diarrhea, vomiting, bloating and gaseousness as one category called gastro-intestinal illness.

1. 本数据集展示了据报用于药用的各类物质的药用治疗类型分布情况。同一种物质可对应多种药用用途。
2. 总异食行为（pica）涵盖食土癖（geophagy）与其他非食物类异食行为，但不包含食淀粉癖（amylophagy）。本数据集统计了受访者报告某一异食物质被用于某一特定药用治疗的频率。
3. 其他类别按使用频率从高到低依次包含以下治疗用途：咽喉痛治疗用药、儿童龋齿治疗用药、抵御巫术、应对意外与厄运、缓解疲劳与肌肉酸痛、治疗红肿感染性炎症、睾丸肿大和/或遗尿、贫血治疗、产后阴道修复以及人工流产。注：本数据集将腹泻、血性腹泻、呕吐、腹胀与肠胃胀气归为同一类别，命名为胃肠道疾病。