Efficacy and Safety of Changkang Granules in the Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome With Predominant Diarrhea (Liver qi Affecting the Spleen Pattern)

Subjects who have less than 3 spontaneous bowel movements per week during the run-in period; or at least 2 days per week during the run-in period with stool consistency classified as type 1 or 2 on the Bristol Stool Scale;

Patients with a history of severe mental or psychological disorders, or those scoring ≥63 on the Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS), or ≥60 on the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) during the screening period;

Patients with a confirmed history of organic gastrointestinal diseases, including both gastrointestinal and non-gastrointestinal digestive system diseases, such as chronic superficial gastritis with erosions or bleeding of grade II or higher, chronic atrophic gastritis, peptic ulcers, inflammatory bowel disease, intestinal tuberculosis, intestinal ulcers, intestinal obstruction, intestinal adhesions, eosinophilic gastroenteritis, cholelithiasis with recurrent cholecystitis (patients with gallstones or gallbladder polyps ≤0.5 cm in diameter and no significant symptoms may be exempted from exclusion upon investigator's judgment), tuberculous peritonitis, liver cirrhosis, and digestive system tumors, etc.;

Patients diagnosed with other diseases that affect the evaluation of abdominal pain and diarrhea, such as diarrhea caused by lactose intolerance, diarrhea after cholecystectomy, abdominal pain due to endometriosis, abdominal pain caused by hepatic and biliary stones or cholecystitis, abdominal pain due to chronic pancreatitis, etc.;