Effect of Dendrobium nobile powder combined with conventional therapy on mild to moderate fatty liver

Table 3 Traditional Chinese medicine syndrome scores before and after treatment (n = 40, points, mean ± SD)

Group	Main symptoms		Secondary symptoms
	Before treatment	After 8 weeks of treatment	Before treatment	After 8 weeks of treatment
Observation group	9.46 ± 1.38	1.82 ± 0.291	5.16 ± 1.39	1.23 ± 0.231
Control group	9.33 ± 1.27	3.76 ± 0.662	5.22 ± 1.42	2.87 ± 0.712
t value	0.438	17.020	0.191	13.898
P value	0.662	< 0.0001a	0.849	< 0.0001a

^aP < 0.05.

¹P Defined compared with the observation group before treatment.

²P Defined compared with the control group before treatment.