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. 2020 Feb 5;16:7. doi: 10.1186/s13002-020-0358-4

Table 2.

Informant consensus factor values of top 22 human health problem categories

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

nt number of medicinal plant species (taxa used), nur number of use citations

aIndicates 22 major categories of n = 143