Use and Conservation of Medicinal Plants by Indigenous People of Gozamin Wereda, East Gojjam Zone of Amhara Region, Ethiopia: An Ethnobotanical Approach

Table 4

Preference ranking of six medicinal plants against leech in livestock (cited by six respondents).

Medicinal plants	Respondents ()						Total	Rank
	Guizotia abyssinica	3	2	2	2	2			1	12	6th
Lagenaria abyssinica	3	2	2	3	2	2	14	5th
Otostegia integrifolia	1	4	3	3	3	2	16	4th
Rhamnus prinoides	4	4	3	4	4	4	23	2nd
Solanum marginatum	4	4	3	4	4	4	23	3rd
Nicotiana tabacum	4	4	3	4	5	5	25	1st

Note. Scores in the table indicate ranks given to medicinal plants based on their efficacy. Highest number (5) is given to the medicinal plant which informants thought to be most effective in treating leech and the lowest number (1) is given to the least effective plant.