Research Article

Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Plants Used to Treat Human and Livestock Ailments in Hulet Eju Enese Woreda, East Gojjam Zone of Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Table 5

Fidelity level index of the relative healing potential of some selected medicinal plants used against human or livestock ailments.

Botanical name of medicinal plantsAilment to be treatedNPNFLFL%

Verbena officinalisStomachache40401100
Embelia schimperiTapeworm34341100
Zehneria scabraFibril illness, skin rash31330.9494
Rosa abyssinicaTapeworm, stomachache26280.9393
Datura stramoniumDandruff, toothache20220.9191
Phytolacca dodecandraGonorrhea, rabies, anthrax38440.8684
Croton macrostachyusFebrile illness, ascariasis, wart22260.8585
Kalanchoe laciniataNasal bleeding, body swelling, leg swelling12160.7575
Justicia schimperianaRabies, gonorrhea, wound18250.7272