Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescriptions Decrease Diarrhea Rate by Relieving Colonic Inflammation and Ameliorating Caecum Microbiota in Piglets

Table 5

Effects of TCM treatments on growth performance in piglets.

Items	Groups
	Control	TCM1	TCM2
ADG (kg)	0.52 ± 0.01^a	0.56 ± 0.03^b	0.56 ± 0.02^b
ADFI (kg)	0.95 ± 0.03	0.98 ± 0.07	1.00 ± 0.05
F : G (kg/kg)	1.85 ± 0.06^A	1.75 ± 0.05^B	1.79 ± 0.03^AB

Note. ADG, average daily gain; ADFI, average daily feed intake; F : G: feed: gain. Results are expressed as mean ± SD, one-way ANOVA, n = 6. ^a,bWithin a row, means without a common lowercase superscript are different at . ^A,BWithin a row, means without a common uppercase superscript are different at .