Ethnopharmacological Assessment of Medicinal Plants Used against Livestock Infections by the People Living around Indus River

Table 5

Preference ranking of ethnoveterinary medicinal plants used against treatment of diarrhea.

Antidiarrheal medicinal plants	Informants labeled A to O															Total score	Rank
	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O
Allium sativum	4	6	4	5	4	3	6	5	4	5	3	4	4	4	4	65	6
Cassia fistula	3	2	1	3	4	3	5	2	2	5	5	3	2	3	2	45	8
Citrus reticulate	4	5	3	5	6	2	4	2	5	3	5	3	2	4	3	56	7
Gossypium hirsutum	5	4	4	6	4	4	5	6	5	6	5	6	4	3	5	72	4
Mangifera indica	3	5	4	7	5	2	4	3	4	6	4	6	4	5	3	65	6
Punica granatum	6	7	5	6	7	4	4	5	5	4	6	7	4	7	4	81	2
Triticum aestivum	4	4	4	4	3	5	6	4	6	7	6	6	7	5	4	75	3
Withania coagulans	2	3	2	6	6	6	6	4	5	4	5	5	6	5	5	70	5
Zingiber officinale	7	7	7	7	6	7	4	7	7	5	7	7	6	5	7	96	1

Table scores indicate ranks given to medicinal plants based on their efficacy. Highest number () for the medicinal plant which informants thought was most effective in treating diarrhea and the lowest number () for the least-effective plant.