Ministry of Health and Welfare Department of Chinese Medicine and pharmacy specially subsidizes domestic teaching hospitals to install clinical study centers for Chinese pharmacies, in order to establish the clinical study environment for Chinese pharmacies meeting the international regulations, to assist promoting and performing clinical studies in Chinese pharmacies, and then to improve the nation's health and benefits. This will render Chinese pharmacies competitive in the international market by employing scientific tests and verifications. The new project applications are respectively as follows: A randomized double blind placebo control study of Xiang-Sha-Liu-Jun-Zi-Tang (XSLJZT) in patients with irritable bowel syndrome The main clinical manifestations of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are chronic, recurrent abdominal pain or abdominal dyscomfortable associated with the changes of defecation habit, such as constipation and/or diarrhea. Clinical treatment of IBS includes behavioral, and drug treatment, such as anti-diarrheal agent, 5-HT3 receptor antagonist and 5-HT4 receptor agonist, but these treatments relieve partial symptoms only. Xiang-Sha-Liu-Jun-Zi-Tang (XSLJZT) origins from Yizongjinjion, and that uses XSLJZT to treat the patients who has qi deficiency, phlegm-retained fluid, nausea and vomiting, gastrointestinal dysharmony and producing many symptoms. These symptoms of mentioned-above are similar to IBS. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the therapeutic effect of XSLJZT on IBS, the investigators designed a randomized double blind placebo control study to assess the effect of XSLJZT on IBS.
Age range
20 Years – 65 Years
Sex
ALL
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Gastrointestinal System Rating Scale-IBS Questionnaire
Timeframe: Change from baseline Gastrointestinal System Rating Scale-IBS score at week 4 (28 ± 5 days) and week 12 (84 ± 7 days)