The efficacy and function of licorice tablets and contraindications

Licorice tablets have a lot of effects on the human body with other food can not replace the benefits, so people rely on it. Although the nutritional value of licorice tablets is relatively high, but even so can not be ignored its contraindications, want to know the side effects of licorice tablets and licorice tablets efficacy and role and contraindications? Then take a look at it.

Contraindications of licorice tablets

The main ingredient of licorice tablets - licorice extract powder has a good moisturizing, cough, expectorant function, but it is not suitable for long-term use.

Licorice tablets contain tablet powder - also known as opium, which acts as a central cough suppressant, and although the content is very low, it can be addictive when taken in large quantities over a long period of time.

Once the drug is stopped, patients can experience frequent yawning, cold sweats, runny nose, and even restlessness, often taking two to three months to get rid of.

In addition to these two ingredients, licorice tablets also contain camphor, anise oil and sodium benzoate.

Camphor has local anesthetic and expectorant properties. Anise oil is volatile, and after entering the respiratory tract, it can stimulate glandular secretion, dilute phlegm and make it easy to cough up.

These ingredients **** the same role, so that the licorice tablets of cough suppressant effect is very obvious. Sodium benzoate is the preservative ingredient in this medicine, which has some antibacterial effect.

Licorice tablets are suitable for dry coughs produced by external stimuli and are symptomatic drugs. If self-medication, the use of time should not be more than 3 days, if the symptoms are not relieved after 3 days, you should go to the regular hospital to find the cause of the disease, symptomatic medication.

The licorice ingredient in licorice tablets has a hormone-like effect, and long-term use may lead to gastric ulcers, and it is recommended that it be taken after meals to minimize stimulation of the gastrointestinal tract.

In addition, the a component in it produces side effects such as nausea, vomiting, and constipation.

In addition, licorice also has a water-sodium retention effect, will make the blood pressure rise, so hypertensive patients should be used with caution; can lead to miscarriage in pregnant women, pregnant women and lactating women should also be avoided.

Licorice tablets are cough suppressant and expectorant medicines with a wide range of roles, and are often used to tonify the qi and benefit the spleen, harmonize the middle and slow down, and harmonize the efficacy of various medicines in traditional Chinese medicine soups and proprietary Chinese medicines.

After refining and processing of licorice extract and preparations is a good cough, expectorant, asthma effect of drugs. Therefore, licorice is able to treat cough and asthma.

Effects of Licorice Tablets

Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Allergic

Licorice tablets have anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic properties that protect against the `symptoms` of throat inflammation.

Liver protection and nourishment

Licorice tablets contain active ingredients such as glycyrrhizic acid, which can prevent liver cell damage by inhibiting complement, which in turn protects the liver and prevents viruses from entering the liver cells by altering the permeability of cell membranes to achieve an antiviral effect.

Protection of gastrointestinal health

Licorice tablets have adrenocorticotropic hormone-like effect. It has an inhibitory effect on histamine-induced hypersecretion of gastric acid; it also has antacid and relieves gastrointestinal smooth muscle spasm.

Cough suppressant

Licorice tablets contain substances such as licorice flavonoids have a very effective cough suppressant effect on the human body, as well as the effect of expectorant.

Glycyrrhiza tablets can enhance the effect of other medicines in the formula

This is related to the glycyrrhizic acid, glycyrrhizin, isoglycyrrhizin contained in the tablets. For example, glycyrrhizic acid paeoniflorin glycosides have synergistic effects in analgesia, antispasmodic, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, inhibition of gastric juice secretion and relaxation of smooth muscle.

Remove bad breath

Drinking tea with small-leaf maitake and licorice tablets, or holding a grain of plum, green olive, or hawthorn in the mouth can also prevent bad breath.

Treating joint pain

Licorice has the efficacy of benefiting qi and relieving pain, and it has been found in medication that some patients with joint pain are relieved of the pain after taking licorice.

Those who suffer from pain due to gastrointestinal discomfort or joint pain can take moxa licorice to regulate it.

Clearing heat and detoxification of raw licorice

In ancient times, such as arsenic poisoning, lead poisoning, etc., people took raw licorice boiled in water directly to detoxify the poison.

Nowadays, if rural people mistakenly drink some mild pesticide water, they can boil licorice and take it, with some relief. If the poisoning is serious, urgent medical attention is required. Poisoning caused by eating shrimp or crab, you can also take raw licorice water to detoxify.

How to make licorice

Licorice loofah soup

Ingredients

10 grams of licorice, 1 loofah, 200 grams of lean meat slices, 500 grams of chicken broth, 600 grams of water, 3 grams of salt.

Method

(1) licorice, meat slices, add stock, water, such as soup pot to boil. Turn the fire to boil for 30 minutes.

(2) Loofah peeled, cut into pieces and spare.

(3) Add the loofah.

(4) Turn to high heat and boil for 10 minutes. Finally add salt to taste.

Barley Licorice Tea

Ingredients

10 grams of barley, 2 grams of licorice, the right amount of rock sugar, boiled tea bags.