Ethnopharmacological Survey of Medicinal Plants Used by Traditional Healers and Indigenous People in Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh, for the Treatment of Snakebite

Table 1

Demographic data of the informants.

Variable	Categories	Frequency; ( = 110)	Percentage
Gender	Male	72	65
	Female	38	35
Age (years)	<30	16	15
	30–40	25	23
	40–50	23	21
	50–60	34	31
	>60	12	11
Education (years)^†		20	18
	5	48	44
	8	21	19
	10	15	14
	12	12	11
	16	10	10
	>16	4	4
Experience^‡	<2	18	16
	2–5	25	23
	5–10	18	16
	10–20	37	34
	>20	12	11
Profession^Ұ	Traditional health practitioners	42	38
	Indigenous people	68	62

These people do not have any formal educational training; ^†year completed through formal educational institution; ^‡relevant to treating people; ^Ұpeople who acquired medicinal knowledge by themselves and are usually involved in profession not relevant to medicine.