Table 3.

Patients showing improvement in post-treatment score of epigastric pain with respect to pretreatment score in each study group

Groups	Number of patients showing change in epigastric pain score			P value
	Improved score	Same score	Worsened score
Triple therapy (n=23)	15 (65.2)	8	0	0.000*
1g NS+O (n=21)	17 (80.9)	4	0	0.000*
2g NS+O (n=21)	13 (61.9)	8	0	0.001*
3g NS+O (n=23)	15 (65.2)	8	0	0.000*

NS: N. sativa; O: Omeprazole; Triple therapy= (Amoxicillin + Clarithromycin + Omeprazole). n: number of patients.

^*All groups showed signifi cant improvement in post-treatment score compared to the pretreatment score (P < 0.05) using Wilcoxon rank test