Table 1.

Comparison of symptom recovery time of child patients between the two groups ($\overline{x}$ ± s, d).

Group	n	Fever clearance time	Cough clearance time	Tonsil hyperemia clearance time	Laboured breathing relief time	Lung rale clearance time	Time of lesion disappearance on X-ray chest film
Conventional group	41	3.81 ± 0.76	9.67 ± 2.17	6.18 ± 1.84	3.55 ± 0.74	5.17 ± 0.69	8.25 ± 1.87
Combined group	41	2.75 ± 0.85	7.03 ± 1.97	4.27 ± 1.92	2.64 ± 0.53	4.06 ± 0.73	6.53 ± 1.75
t		5.953	5.768	4.599	6.402	7.076	4.300
P		<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001