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Table 2 Informant consensus value of category of diseases of public health and livestock importance in Yalow Woreda

From: An ethnobotanical survey of medicinal and edible plants of Yalo Woreda in Afar regional state, Ethiopia

Category

Species

(%) All Species

Use citations

(%) All use citations

ICF

Acute febrile illness and malaria

32

31%

102

18%

0.69

Internal and liver infection

55

54%

166

29%

0.67

Gastrointestinal disease, internal parasite

50

49%

129

23%

0.62

Swellings and cancer

45

44%

102

18%

0.56

Flue, headache

25

25%

54

10%

0.55

Eye, ear nose, and mouth

35

34%

63

11%

0.45

Respiratory and lung infection

26

25%

41

7%

0.38

External injury and external parasite

28

27%

44

8%

0.37

Skin and subcutaneous tissue infection

30

29%

43

8%

0.31

Snake and scorpion bite

20

20%

28

5%

0.30

Devil disease, schizophrenia, epilepsy

25

25%

34

6%

0.27

Birth related and urinary tract infection.

18

18%

23

4%

0.23

Impotence

6

6%

7

1%

0.17