The harms of eating too much licorice:

1. Impotence:

Licorice can damage sexual function. Studies have shown that taking 28 grams of licorice a day can cause male impotence. decreased libido and other forms of sexual impotence.

2. Respiratory failure:

Excessive consumption of licorice will have an inhibitory effect on the central nervous system, especially the respiratory center. In severe cases, it can lead to respiratory depression. Failure to rescue in time can cause Danger to life.

3. High blood pressure:

Licorice contains glycyrrhizin, which can be hydrolyzed into glycyrrhetinic acid, which acts like adrenocortical hormone. Excessive consumption can inhibit the conversion of cortisol. This causes blood pressure to rise.

4. Edema:

Eating too much licorice will reduce urine output and sodium excretion, increase potassium, and cause water accumulation in the body. The body will accumulate excess sodium, leading to edema. .

5. Premature birth in pregnant women:

Licorice has an estrogen-like effect and also has the effect of contracting the uterus. Pregnant women taking too much licorice may cause premature birth.

6. Premature puberty in children:

Children eating too much licorice may cause premature breast development and premature puberty.

Extended information:

Licorice mostly grows in arid and semi-arid sandy soils, desert edges and loess hilly areas. It is also easy to reproduce in fields and riverbanks in Yellow River irrigation areas.

Licorice prefers an ecological environment with sufficient sunlight, less rainfall, hot summers, cold winters, and large temperature differences between day and night. It is light-loving, drought-tolerant, heat-tolerant, salt-alkali tolerant, and cold-tolerant.

Reference materials:

Baidu Encyclopedia: Licorice