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

Table 7

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

Group	Abdominal distension		Stool character score
	0 weeks	2 weeks	0 weeks	2 weeks
Treatment group	2.19 ± 0.81	0.42 ± 0.18	1.91 ± 0.76	0.59 ± 0.16
Control group	2.11 ± 0.87	1.08 ± 0.22	1.91 ± 0.72	1.08 ± 0.26
value	0.512	<0.001	0.963	<0.001

Note: when compared with before treatment in the groups.