Clinical researches of Chinese medicine treating chronic constipation are more and more popular.Therapeutic evaluation methods and indexes involved are Bristol stool typing and scoring

main symptoms and single symptom evaluation

intestinal kinetics therapeutic evaluation

anorectal function evaluation

pelvic floor electromyography

Chinese medicine syndromes therapeutic evaluation

life quality evaluation

etc. However

there still remain many problems in current evaluation methods of Chinese medicine effect

such as incomprehensive symptoms evaluation

lacks of follow-up and safety indexes

composite outcome indicators increasing positive results

without united syndrome typing and scoring

misusing laboratory indexes

etc. Combined with the therapeutic evaluation development of Chinese medicine treating chronic constipation

the authors propose suggestions that

therapeutic evaluation indexes applied for chronic constipation Chinese medicine intervention measures should be selected

with the explanation of selecting reasons. In addition

the unique advantages of Chinese medicine treatment ought to be reflected in therapeutic evaluation

and the connotation of Chinese medicine therapeutic evaluation may be enriched by introducing pathological mechanism. This paper may provide reference for establishing and improving high quality therapeutic evaluation system of clinical researches of Chinese medicine treating chronic constipation.