Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Research Article

Traditional Japanese Medicine Daikenchuto Improves Functional Constipation in Poststroke Patients

Table 1

Baseline population demographics of DKT and control groups.


	Group
	DKT^a	Control

	17	17
Sex			0.73
Female	9	8
Male	8	9
Age (y)			0.78
Height (cm)			0.56
Body weight (kg)			0.99
Diagnoses,			0.31
Brain infarction	10	14
Cerebral hemorrhage	4	2
Subarachnoid hemorrhage	3	1
Illness duration (y)			0.15
Barthel Index			0.39
The way of nutritional intake			0.14
Orally	5	1
Through nasogastric tube	2	5
Through gastrostomy tube	10	11
CSS total^b (points)			0.96
CGRP (pg/mL)			0.25
GVS (%)			0.44

DKT, Daikenchuto; CSS, constipation scoring system; CGRP, calcitonin gene-related peptide; GVS, gas volume score.
CSS total: not including point of Q5.
Significance designated at .