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

Table 8

Comparison of follow-up symptom scores between the treatment and the control groups ( ± s).

Group	Defecation frequency	Defecation time	Difficult defecation	Abdominal distension	Stool character score
Treatment group	0.37 ± 0.49	0.29 ± 0.45	0.43 ± 0.52	0.31 ± 0.47	0.46 ± 0.62
Control group	0.80 ± 0.66	0.66 ± 0.50	1.19 ± 0.57	1.00 ± 0.66	1.02 ± 0.72
value	≤0.01	≤0.01	≤0.01	≤0.01	≤0.01