Research Article
Traditional Herbal Knowledge among the Inhabitants: A Case Study in Urgam Valley of Chamoli Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India
Table 1
Demographic characteristic of informants.
| Variables | Categories | Number |
| Age | 20-30 | 9 |
| | 31-40 | 17 |
| | 41-50 | 22 |
| | 51-60 | 26 |
| | 61-70 | 19 |
| | 71-80 | 3 |
| Gender / specialist | Male (general) | 72 |
| | Female (general) | 17 |
| | Male specialist healer | 4 |
| | Female specialist healer | 3 |
| Education level | Illiterate | 17 |
| | 1-5 | 27 |
| | 6-10 | 22 |
| | 10-12 | 26 |
| | >12 | 4 |
| Source of knowledge | By parents | 71 |
| | By other | 20 |
| | Self-experiments | 5 |
| Total | | 96 |
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