Table 6.
Preference ranking to medicinal plants used to treat rheumatism
| List of medicinal plants | Informants | Total | Rank | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | R10 | |||
| Ardisia crenata | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 37 | 8 |
| Ardisia gigantifolia | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 43 | 6 |
| Bauhinia championi | 9 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 74 | 3 |
| Cibotium barometz | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 30 | 9 |
| Clerodendrum japonicum | 4 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 38 | 7 |
| Kadsura coccinea | 6 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 59 | 5 |
| Maclura cochinchinensis | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 26 | 10 |
| Millettia lasiopetala | 7 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 70 | 4 |
| Semiliquidambar cathayensis | 10 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 93 | 1 |
| Tetrastigma planicaule | 8 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 80 | 2 |
R represented respondents; scores in the table indicated ranks given to medicinal plants based on their scarcity. Highest number (10) is for the medicinal plants which informants thought most preferred in the area and the lowest number (1) for the least preferred medicinal plant