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Table 2 Frequency of livestock illness happened in Nu villages, Gongshan County

From: Ethnoveterinary plant remedies used by Nu people in NW Yunnan of China

Type of symptom

Pig (%)

Chicken (%)

Cattle (%)

Sheep/goat (%)

Skin conditions

81.7

--

16.7

16.7

Parasites

68.3

20.0

16.7

35.0

Diarrhea

56.7

66.7

65.0

65.0

Heat, fever, colds

55.8

81.7

66.7

42.5

Sores

42.5

--

--

55.8

Not enthusiastic to eat/refusing food

37.5

--

--

--

Constipation

33.3

--

--

--

Gaseous stomach

14.2

--

--

--

Twitching, shivering, breathlessness

13.3

56.7

42.5

42.5

Lying down all the time

12.5

--

--

--

Retained afterbirth

16.7

--

16.7

20.0

Newcastle disease

--

83.3

--

--

Poison (snake and worm bite)

--

--

30.0

43.3