Preventive Effects of the Intestine Function Recovery Decoction, a Traditional Chinese Medicine, on Postoperative Intra-Abdominal Adhesion Formation in a Rat Model

Table 2

Steps of operation and postoperative intervention for each group.

Groups	Abdominal incision	Peritoneum abraded	Gastric infusion
Normal	Yes	No	No
Model	Yes	Yes	No
Control	Yes	Yes	10 mL/kg normal saline
Low dose IFRD	Yes	Yes	10 mL/kg IFRD (equivalent to 7.55 g of herbs/kg)
High dose IFRD	Yes	Yes	10 mL/kg IFRD (equivalent to 15.1 g of herbs/kg)