Modern research, roasted licorice contains glycyrrhizin, glycyrrhizic acid, glycyrrhizic polysaccharides and other chemical components, with anti-inflammatory and anti-metamorphic effects, can regulate the body's immune function, anti-tumor and analgesic effect. Therefore, the main effect of roasted licorice is to harmonize the middle and slow down the urgency, moisten the lungs, detoxify the toxins and harmonize the medicines. It is often used in the weak spleen and stomach, tiredness and weakness, heart palpitations, pulse knot generation, and can solve the poison of the epiphyllum.

Braised licorice is clinically used in braised licorice soup, which is made of braised licorice as the main raw material. Therefore, the efficacy and effect of roasted licorice can be analyzed from the roasted licorice soup. Comprehensive generations of doctors, that the main effects of hot licorice soup has the following four points:

1, tonic yin-based effect, the Qing Dynasty Ke Qin "typhoid fever Lai Suji - typhoid fever with wing" pointed out that "the raw land for the king, maitake for the subject, hot licorice for the adjuvant, the dose to the grim tonic true yin, open the school of nourishing yin all the way also." Tian Zonghan of the Qing Dynasty also considered this formula to be "the ancestral formula for nourishing yin".

2, the main effect of blood tonic, to the Qing Dynasty Tang Rongchuan as the representative of a school of medical practitioners believe that baked licorice soup is "the blood of the great agent".

3, the efficacy of both blood and qi supplementation, represented by the "commentary on the theory of typhoid fever", that the efficacy of roasted licorice soup for both blood and qi supplementation, "the benefit of the deficiency to replenish the blood and qi and recovery of the pulse".

4, yin and yang and adjust, the Qing Dynasty physician You in Jing "typhoid fever Guanzhu collection" pointed out that the roasted licorice soup is "expansion of the system, for the yin and yang and adjust the method. This formula is mainly used for treating deficiency of yin and blood after typhoid or recovery from serious illness, blood not glorifying the heart, deficiency and less gas, panic and palpitation, deficiency and less sleep, dryness and astringency of stools, slightly red tongue with less moss, and irregularities in the pulse. Or lung impotence and prolonged coughing, spitting saliva spittle sputum, more, dry throat and thirst, or sputum with blood, palpitations, shortness of breath, warm liquid in the heart, insomnia and sweating, pulse is weak and fine and number, or occasionally see the knot generation.