Efficacy and Safety of Maxing Xianchang Su in the Treatment of Functional Constipation: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Table 6

Comparison of changes in the symptom scores before and after treatment in the treatment and control groups ( ± s).

Group	Defecation frequency		Defecation time		Difficult defecation
	0 weeks	2^nd week	0 weeks	2^nd week	0 weeks	2^nd week
Treatment group	1.27 ± 0.38	0.38 ± 0.11	1.47 ± 0.67	0.45 ± 0.15	1.94 ± 0.80	0.57 ± 0.19
Control group	1.27 ± 0.37	0.76 ± 0.17	1.45 ± 0.66	0.89 ± 0.18	1.97 ± 0.76	1.29 ± 0.40
value	0.925	<0.001	0.836	<0.001	0.793	<0.001

Note: when compared to before treatment in the groups.