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Table 6 Informant Consensus Factor (ICF) for human and livestock ailments Addi Arkay district

From: Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used to treat human and livestock ailments in Addi Arkay district, northwest Ethiopia

Ailment categories

Reported diseases

No of species used (Nt)

Total no of use citation (Nur)

ICF

Diseases and symptoms involving the nervous system

Fibril illness, headache, migraine, snake bite, spider poison

20

294

0.93

Injury, poisoning, and certain other consequences of external causes

Bone luxation, eczema, fire burn, ingestive toxicity, laceration, luxation, wound, swelling, swelling (megerem), tumor

30

380

0.92

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Anthrax, ascaris, calf scour, diarrhea, gastritis, boil, malaria, finger amputation, dandruff, brain abscess, ectoparasite of hen, fleas, gastrointestinal parasite, hen disease, hepatitis, internal parasite, scabies, leech, leprosy, meningitis, mumps, tape worm, rabies, ringworm, tinea capitis, STDs, yellow fever

77

790

0.90

Symptoms, signs, and clinical findings not elsewhere classified

Evil eye, evil spirit, brain enlightenment, flies repellant, glossophobia, incantation, love potion, psychosis, snake repellents

16

137

0.89

Diseases and symptoms involving respiratory system

Asthma, common cold, cough, nasal bleed, tonsillitis, uvula descending

20

128

0.85

Conditions related to sexual health

Impotency, sexual desire, Menorrhagia

5

26

0.84

Diseases and symptoms involving digestive system

Colic and dyspepsia, hemorrhoid, gum bleeding, stomachache, teeth diseases, toothache

26

124

0.80

Diseases of the musculoskeletal system or connective tissue

Back pain, abdominal pain, cold-induced muscle pain, finger pain, rheumatism, stabbing pain

11

46

0.78

Diseases of the ear or mastoid process and visual system

Ear diseases, moth, ear pus, epiphora, eye disease

12

49

0.77

Pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium

Sterilization, retained placenta, RH factor

5

17

0.75

Diseases of the circulatory system and blood and blood-forming organs

Hypertension, bleeding

6

19

0.72

Diseases of the genitourinary system

Dysuria (shintemat), kidney stone

4

9

0.63