Our findings are very much in keeping with previous studies, noting similar ailments or chronic medical conditions associated with a higher use of herbal medicine. We found that a majority of health-related measures were associated with elevated rates of herbal medicine and that rates were substantially higher among individuals reporting depressive symptoms. Among the most common problems identified by previous investigators to be associated with herbal medicine use among a variety of ethnicities were back pain, anxiety, arthritis (21), depression, and digestive conditions (4,21).