Table 2.

Correspondence between emic disease names and etic disease categories and their frequency of mention

Digestive	Respiratory	Cardiovascular
Abdominal gas (11) Abdominal pain (12) Acidity (1) Appetiser (2) Colic pain (2) Constipation (12) Digestion problems (26) Dysentery (2) Gastric problems (3) Indigestion (5) Loose motion (1) Loss of appetite (1)Piles (2) Stop loose motion (3) Vomiting (2) Worm infestation (1)	Cough (1) Chest infection (7) COVID-19 (4) Respiratory tract infection (5) Cold fever (1) Common cold (2) Remove sputum (1)	Blood pressure (6) Heart diseases (3)
Blood	Endocrine	Musculoskeletal
Anaemia (3) Increases blood (5) Blood thinner (3)	Diabetes (20)	Join pain (4)
Skin	Female genital	Male genital
Burns (2) Face smoothness (1) Fracture (1) Hair loss (3) Infected wound (1) Pus (1) Skin diseases (1) Skin dryness (1) Skin rashes (4) Skin roughness (2) Snake bite (1) Wound (6)	Abnormal menstruation (1) Leucorrhoea (2)	Infertility (1) Improve sexual desire (5) Sexual tonic (10) Night fall (1)
Ear	Urological	Neurological
Ear infection (1)	Diuretic (2) Kidney problems (1) Nocturnal enuresis (in children) (2) Urinary tract infection (6)	Brain tonic (2) Enhance memory (1)
Eye	Liver	General
Improve eyesight (2) Night blindness (2)	Hepatitis (4) Liver problems (2)	Believed to be a strong antibiotic (1) Body pain (4) Cosmetics (1) Energiser (3) Fever (6) General body tonic (9) General weakness (3) Immune booster (5) Immuniser (6) Infected teeth (3) Iron deficiency (2) Malaria (7) Obesity (3) Pain (4) Refrigerant (9) Tonic (1) Typhoid (6) Weakness (11)