I remember when I was a child, I would cough when I had a cold, and my mother would give me licorice tablets. Bian Xiao thinks licorice tablets have a good cough relieving effect. It can be said that when I was a child, licorice tablets were the most commonly used cough medicine. Now the licorice in the pharmacy has become a compound licorice tablet and a prescription drug. Let's have a look.

1. Compound licorice tablets are prescription drugs.

Prescription drugs refer to drugs that can only be prepared, purchased and used under the guidance of licensed pharmacists or other medical professionals and under the prescription of licensed doctors or assistant doctors.

The main components of compound licorice tablets are that each tablet contains licorice extract powder 1 12.5 mg, opium powder 4 mg, camphor 2 mg, star anise oil 2 mg and sodium benzoate 2 mg. This product is a brown tablet; Especially smelly, especially sweet; Easy to absorb moisture. Used for relieving cough and resolving phlegm.

2, the efficacy of licorice

Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch. belongs to the twelve meridians. It has pharmacological effects of detoxification, expectoration, analgesia, spasmolysis and even anticancer. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that licorice can tonify spleen and qi, relieve cough and moisten lung, detoxify urgently and harmonize hundreds of medicines. Clinical application is divided into "raw use" and "honey preparation". Can be used for treating sore throat, sore, ulcer, gastrointestinal ulcer, antidote and food poisoning. Honey baking is mainly used to treat hypofunction of spleen and stomach, thin stool, fatigue and fever, cough and palpitation.

Compendium of Materia Medica records: Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch has the functions of invigorating spleen and benefiting qi, moistening lung, relieving cough, relieving pain, clearing away heat and toxic materials, relaxing medicinal properties and harmonizing hundreds of medicines.

3. Edible method and treatment prescription

Edible method of licorice

Yiqi Shengxue: Atractylodes macrocephala 15g, Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch and green tea 3g each. Add water to Atractylodis Rhizoma and Glycyrrhrizae Radix, boil for 10 minute, and add green tea. Warm drink for three times, take it after soaking again, and take 1 dose daily.

Supplement physical strength: 50 grams of licorice and 30 grams of ganoderma lucidum. After cleaning Ganoderma lucidum, put it into 1000 ml water with licorice, boil it with low fire for 40 minutes, filter the residue and take the juice, and you can drink it.

Detoxification and liver-clearing: licorice 1-2 tablets, mung bean in proper amount. Boil mung beans and licorice for 45 minutes, and then take the juice to drink.

Health-preserving medicated diet calms the liver and promotes diuresis.

Stewed white duck with licorice and mung bean: 20g licorice, 90g mung bean, white duck meat 100g, 5g salt. Soak Glycyrrhrizae radix, cleaning, and slice; Wash mung beans and remove impurities; Wash the white duck and cut into pieces. Put duck, licorice and mung bean in a pot, add 500ml of water, bring to a boil with strong fire, then simmer for 50min, add salt and stir well.

Treatment prescription

Chronic pharyngitis: take licorice 10g, and take it with boiling water as tea until all symptoms are relieved. Do not eat fish, spicy food, sugar and other foods.

Eczema scrotum: Take 30 grams of Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch, and wash the affected area after decoction, 2 ~ 3 times a day. Three days is 1 course of treatment. 1~2 courses of treatment can be cured.

Edible method and therapeutic prescription of licorice

Diabetes insipidus: take licorice root and grind it into powder, 5g each time, and take it with warm boiled water, 4 times a day.

Treatment of children to lose weight: three or two pieces of licorice, burnt to the end, made into honey pills the size of mung beans, five pills each time, taken in warm water twice a day.