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Table 3 Informant consensus factor (ICF) by animal disease category mentioned by Mapuche and non-Mapuche campesinos, southern Andes

From: “The climate itself must have hidden some medicines”: traditional veterinary medicine of indigenous and non-indigenous campesinos of the southern Andes

Disease/symptoms category

Nº of species used

Nº of reported uses

ICF value

Infectious diseases

11

17

0.38

Diarrhea

10

25

0.63

Retention of placenta

7

36

0.80

Mastitis

3

4

0.33

Wounds

2

12

0.91

Parasites

4

31

0.90

Eye disease

2

2

0.00