Research Article
Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Plants Used by Traditional Healers to Treat Cancer-Like Symptoms in Eleven Districts, Ethiopia
Table 5
Informants consensus factor for different ailment categories.
| No. | Category | No. of species | % of all species | No. of use reports | % of all use reports | ICF |
| 1 | Skin | 25 | 30.5 | 32 | 26.5 | 0.23 | 2 | Breast | 20 | 24.4 | 29 | 23.9 | 0.32 | 3 | Cervical | 1 | 1.22 | 1 | 0.83 | 0 | 4 | Colon | 1 | 1.22 | 1 | 0.83 | 0 | 5 | Lung | 1 | 1.22 | 1 | 0.83 | 0 | 6 | Throat | 1 | 1.22 | 1 | 0.83 | 0 | 7 | Other disease | 33 | 40.2 | 56 | 46.3 | 0.42 | | Total | 82 | | 121 | | |
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Each plant species may be listed in several categories. |