Effectiveness and safety of light vegetarian diet on functional constipation with gastrointestinal damp-heat pattern: An exploratory study protocol for randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Functional constipation (FC) is one of the common gastrointestinal disorders that affects people of almost every age. Persistent FC significantly affects quality of life and well-being along with economic burden on patients as well as health care system. Therapeutic efficacy of currently used treatment strategies becomes limited shortly after their discontinuation as constipation occurs again as a result of inappropriate dietary habits. Previous studies have revealed that light vegetarian diet (LVD) can significantly improve both typical and atypical subtypes of major traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) FC syndrome such as gastrointestinal damp-heat syndrome. This protocol aims at exploratorily investigating effectiveness and safety of LVD following a rigorous clinical

SUBMITTER: Liu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6922355 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature