Consensus of the 'Malasars' traditional aboriginal knowledge of medicinal plants in the Velliangiri holy hills, India

Table 2 Ethnobotanical consensus index for traditional medicinal plant use categories.

Illness category [84]	Number of Taxa (N_t)	Number of use-reports (N_ur)	Informants' consensus index factor (F_ic)^a
Jaundice	2	14	0.92
Fever	3	5	0.50
Repel evil sprit	5	31	0.87
Respiratory	6	27	0.80
Infections	6	14	0.61
Dermatological	14	51	0.74
Pain	16	65	0.76
Gastrointestinal	18	41	0.56
General health	25	86	0.71
Wounds	6	15	0.62
Total ^b	101	249	-

^aF_ic = N_ur-N_t/(N_ur-1), providing a value between 0 and 1, where high value indicates a high rate of informant consensus.
^bA taxon may be listed in several of the categories of medicinal usage.

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