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Table 2 Informant consensus factor values of top 22 human health problem categories

From: An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Sheka Zone of Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Regional State, Ethiopia

a

Diseases/categories

nt

nur

nur-nut

nur-1

ICF

1

Dermal/skin diseases/

16

399

383

398

0.96

2

Poisoning/snake, insect, other/

19

317

298

316

0.94

3

Gastrointestinal

23

293

270

292

0.92

4

Allergy

35

285

250

284

0.88

5

Viral/Rabies

14

92

78

91

0.86

6

Fungal

32

149

117

148

0.79

7

Ecto-parasites

27

105

78

104

0.75

8

Headache

23

87

64

86

0.74

9

Oropharyngeal

58

179

121

178

0.68

10

Respiratory

50

147

97

146

0.66

11

Cardiac/systemic/

47

123

76

122

0.62

12

Hepatitis/Liver/

65

158

93

157

0.59

13

Opthalmia/eye/

61

143

82

142

0.58

14

Musculoskeletal

12

27

15

26

0.58

15

Renal/Kidney problems/

11

25

14

24

0.58

16

Reproductive

21

46

25

45

0.56

17

Mammary/breast diseases/

10

17

7

16

0.44

18

Otitis/ear/

14

21

7

20

0.35

19

Acute fibril illness/nerve/

9

13

4

12

0.33

20

Night evil

3

4

1

3

0.33

21

Glandular fever

6

8

2

7

0.29

22

Epilepsy

4

5

1

4

0.25

  1. nt number of medicinal plant species (taxa used), nur number of use citations
  2. aIndicates 22 major categories of n = 143