Table 4.

Informant consensus factor (F_ic) and medicinal importance (MI) of ethnomedicinal plants

Ailments category	No. of taxa (Nt)a	Frequency (%)b	No. of use reports (Nur)	Informant consensus factor (Fic)c	Medicinal importance (MI)d
Gastrointestinal	23	32.86	695	0.97	30.22
General health cure	22	31.43	524	0.96	23.82
Dermatological	21	30.00	617	0.97	29.38
Respiratory	15	21.43	402	0.97	26.80
Hepatic health cure	8	11.43	364	0.98	45.50
Circulatory	7	10.00	126	0.95	18.00
Skeleton and muscles	6	8.57	178	0.97	29.67
Antidote	5	7.14	83	0.95	16.60
Urinogenital	4	5.71	137	0.98	34.25
Ophthalmic	2	2.86	14	0.92	7.00
Immuno-regulatory	1	1.43	15	1.00	15.00
Other	15	21.43	377	0.96	25.13

^aNo. of species listed in several of the categories of medicinal usage

^bPercentage of records on the total of 70 records

^cF_ic = (N_ur − N_t)/(N_ur − 1)

^dMI = N_ur/N_t