Research Article
Ethnomedical Knowledge of Plants Used for the Treatment of Tuberculosis in Johor, Malaysia
Table 4
Symptoms of TB given by informants and their equivalent biomedical terms.
| Ailment categories | Biomedical terms | Local terms |
| Respiratory diseases and fever | Cough | Se’eh, batuk, gatal-gatal tekak, sakit lidah | Cough with sputum | Batuk berkahak | Ordinary fever | Demam, panas dalam | High fever | Demam panas | Asthma | Semput | Chest pain | Sakit dada | Night fever | Demam malam |
| Arthritis | Rheumatism | Sakit dalam badan | Joint pain | Sakit lutut, sakit sendi |
| Ear, nose, throat bleedings | Nose | Hidung dan tekak berdarah | Sore throat | Sakit leher | Cough with blood | Batuk berdarah |
| Others | Fatigue | Lemah badan | Loss of appetite | Kurang/Tiada selera makan |
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