Qi-Regulating and Blood Circulation-Promoting Therapy Improves Health Status of Stable Angina Pectoris Patients with Depressive Symptoms

Table 6

Effect of Xuefu Zhuyu decoction on traditional Chinese medicine “chest stuffiness and heartache syndrome” in coronary heart disease patients (x ± SD).

		Placebo	Xuefu Zhuyu	value	NDp			Dp
					Placebo	Xuefu Zhuyu	value	Placebo	Xuefu Zhuyu	value
n		15	15		13			17
					7	6		8	9
Traditional Chinese medicine syndrome scores	Baseline	11.67 ± 4.81	13.07 ± 5.97	0.625	9.43 ± 4.03	8.17 ± 3.19	0.081	13.63 ± 4.78	16.33 ± 5.10	0.278
	Treatment	6.08 ± 4.01	5.53 ± 4.36	0.269	4.60 ± 1.14	4.33 ± 2.94	0.239	7.14 ± 5.05	6.33 ± 5.10	0.756
	value	0.552	0.369		0.302	0.840		0.972	0.031
Efficacy index (%)		47.90	57.69		51.22	47.00		47.61	61.24
Curative effect		Effective	Effective		Effective	Effective		Effective	Effective

versus baseline.