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Table 2 Informant consensus factor for six categories of ailments

From: Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Adwa District, Central Zone of Tigray Regional State, Northern Ethiopia

Ailment category

Plant species

Use Citation

ICF

Rank

'Michi', febrile illness and headache

8

243

0.97

1st

Tonsillitis, bleedings and injury

8

140

0.95

2nd

Evil eye and spirit

8

65

0.89

3rd

Sprain, fire burn and toothache

5

36

0.89

3rd

Abdominal pain, parasite, ascariasis, taeniasis, tape worm and amoebiasis

20

163

0.88

4th

Wounds and traumas

8

44

0.84

5th