Traditional Japanese Medicine Daikenchuto Improves Functional Constipation in Poststroke Patients

Figure 2

Changes in the gas volume score (GVS). Two-way ANOVA showed a significant difference between the groups (𝑃=0.03). In the DKT group, the GVS significantly improved from 16.3 ± 6.7% to 9.9 ± 6.0% (paired t-test; 𝑃<0.01), and in the control group it changed from 14.4 ± 7.1% to 13.5 ± 8.0% with no significance (paired t-test; 𝑃=0.61).