Table 3.
Informant Consensus Factor (ICF) Values by Category for Treating Neurological Diseases
| Category | Plant Species Used and Number of Citations | Total number of |
ICF | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Species | Use citations | |||
| Epilepsy | Artemisia herba-alba Linnaeus (93), Chrysanthemum coronarium Linnaeus (63), Tetraclinis articulata Linnaeus (81), Retama monosperma (L.) Boiss (32), Retama raetam Linnaeus (31), Marrubium echinatum Linnaeus (134), Mentha pulegium Linnaeus (67), Allium cepa Linnaeus (60), Myristica fragrans Linnaeus (96), Coffea arabica Linnaeus (65), Solanum tuberosum Linnaeus (78), Aloysia citrodora Linnaeus (100) | 12 | 900 | 0.99 |
| Migraine | Ecballium elaterium Linnaeus (2), Cucumis melo Linnaeus (13), Citrullus vulgaris Linnaeus (9), Mentha spicata Linnaeus (23), Vitex agnus-castus Linnaeus (15), Nicotiana glauca Linnaeus (23), Anacyclus radiatus Linnaeus (1), Artemisia mesatlantica Linnaeus (1), Aloysia citrodora Linnaeus (3), Allium cepa Linnaeus (63), Retama raetam Linnaeus (10) | 11 | 163 | 0.93 |
| Sciatica | Lagenaria siceraria Linnaeus (5), Mentha × piperita Linnaeus (6), Asphodelus microcarpus Linnaeus (36), Lycium europaeum Linnaeus (1), Agave sisalana Linnaeus (1), Xanthium spinosum Linnaeus (1) | 6 | 50 | 0.88 |
| Meningitis | Dactyloctenium aegyptium Linnaeus (8), Datura stramonium Linnaeus (2), Typha angustifolia Linnaeus (1), Agave karatto Linnaeus (1), Aloysia citrodora Linnaeus (2), Artemisia herba-alba Linnaeus (2), Mirabilis jalapa Linnaeus (1) | 7 | 17 | 0.65 |