The properties are sweet and flat. It enters the twelve meridians.

Effects nourishing the spleen and moistening the lungs, benefiting the qi and restoring the veins, easing the pain, clearing heat and removing toxins, and harmonizing the medicinal properties.

Effectiveness characteristics of this product is a good medicine for the spleen and stomach, raw cool, can clear heat and detoxification, roasted with warm, can benefit the qi deficiency, its sweet and slow nature, but also slow pain, so it can be used to treat the spleen and stomach qi deficiency, lack of qi, qi deficiency and blood, palpitations in the heart, phlegm coughing and wheezing, abdominal pain contracture, as well as ulcers and swelling of the poisons of all kinds of evidence. Because it can harmonize the nature of the medicine, to solve the poison of all medicines, with the hot medicine can slow down its heat, with the cold medicine can slow down its cold, can make the tonic and not to the sudden, so that the diarrhea and not to the quick, the most widely used of this medicine. However, the sweet and slow congestion of gas is full of people in the middle, damp obstruction of the middle full of people should not be used.

Effects

1. tonifying the spleen and moistening the lungs: ① for the spleen and stomach weakness, the middle jiao qi deficiency, symptoms of shortness of breath, less food, limb weakness, less food, loose stools, El light abdominal distension, etc., can be used in conjunction with Dangshen, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria. It can be used for weak labor, lack of vital energy, tiredness and fatigue, and can be used with Codonopsis pilosulae and Astragalus membranaceus. ③ used for lung deficiency cough, chronic bronchitis, symptoms of prolonged cough, sputum is small and sticky, dry mouth and throat, cough hoarse, etc., can be used with Sichuan shellfish, maitake, salvia, platycodonopsis, tangerine root, chenpi and so on.

2. Benefiting qi and restoring the pulse: used for qi deficiency and blood deficiency, palpitation and spontaneous sweating, and pulse knotting, can be used with Radix et Rhizoma Shengdi, Ophiopogon, Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng, Gui Zhi, such as Roasted Licorice Soup.

3. Relieving pain is used for stomachache, abdominal pain and contracture pain of muscles and flesh. Treatment of severe pain in the stomach and epigastric region (stomach spasm), 120 grams of licorice, 30 grams of atractylodes macrocephala, decoction; treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcers, can be a single paste or calcined corrugated seeds powder; treatment of pain in the epigastric region and calf (gastrocnemius muscle pain), can be used in the same way with peony, such as peony and licorice soup.

4. Clearing heat and detoxification: used for sores and swelling, sore throat and pesticide, food poisoning treatment of swelling, can be used with honeysuckle, forsythia; treatment of wet sores and facial acne, available licorice 45 grams, honeysuckle 30 grams, decoction; treatment of sore throat, can be used with platanthera, or with lonicera, etc.; treatment of pesticides, food poisoning, can be boiled with mung beans soup service.

5. Harmonization of medicinal properties: used in compound prescriptions to reduce or alleviate the bias or toxicity of drugs.

Identification of the application of raw licorice, long for clearing fire, to clear heat and detoxification, moistening the lungs to stop coughing power, used for phlegm-heat cough, sore throat, etc.; roasted licorice, long for the warmth of the middle to sweet and warm and beneficial to the qi, ease the emergency pain strong, used for the spleen and stomach, palpitations, pulse junction generation, etc.; raw grass, good for the treatment of urethral pain, gonorrhea; raw grass, suitable for eliminating the swelling of the toxin, joints; powdered licorice, preferring clearing the internal heat, diarrhea, heart fire. The same thing, the concoction of the different, the efficacy of the main treatment is also different.

Application

1. Paeonia lactiflora: Paeonia lactiflora nourishes blood and astringes yin, calms the liver and relieves pain; licorice nourishes the spleen and strengthens the qi, eases the pain. The combination of the two drugs, acid and sweet yin, can nourish yin and nourish blood, calm the liver and ease the urgency, antispasmodic and analgesic.

2. With talc to clear away heat, diuresis and neutralization. Slippery stone gas light can relieve muscle, heavy quality can be clear down, cold can be diarrhea heat, slippery can facilitate the trick, light can be seepage of dampness, with licorice diarrhea and heat, not only to help the slippery stone to clear the summer heat, but also slow down the cold slippery too much, there is a clear summer and dampness without harming the positive, safe and the middle Jiao and does not leave the characteristics of the evil, the two medicines, a static and a dynamic, with a particularly good.

3. With Platycodon grandiflorum: clearing heat and relieving pharynx, discharging pus and detoxification. Platycodonopsis leads the medicine upward, declares the lung to dispel phlegm, and expels pus; Glycyrrhiza glabra clears heat and removes toxins, moistens the lung to stop coughing, and eases the pain. The two drugs with a propaganda and a clear, *** play heat and phlegm, detoxification and pus and lung expectorant function.

4. With Gui Zhi: tonifying the heart Yang. Gui Zhi is pungent, sweet and warm, and can be used in the camp; hot licorice is sweet and warm, tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi. The two drugs together, specializing in the heart camp, there is the power of the pungent and sweet yang, pungent and sweet, help the yang without drying, tonifying the camp without cold, Gui Zhi get licorice, then the internal tonic camp qi and nourish the blood; licorice get Gui Zhi, then the tonic and the guard and support the yang.

5. With dry ginger: warming the middle and restoring yang. Licorice can harmonize the middle and slow down the emergency, dry ginger can warm the middle and expel the cold, the two flavors together, pungent and sweet to help the Yang, a restoration of the Yang of the middle Jiao gastric cavity, a warm lung cold drink cold.

6. With rhubarb: diarrhea and detoxification, swelling and pain. Rhubarb can pass stools and drain heat, detoxify sores, and promote blood circulation to eliminate blood stasis, but its attacking force is fierce, and it is most likely to damage the spleen and stomach in the middle jiao and cut down the vitality of the gas; licorice can harmonize and slow down the urgency, clearing the heat and detoxifying the toxin, and harmonizing the nature of the medicine. The combination of the two drugs can help its work and eliminate its disadvantages.

7. With burdock seed: detoxification of the pharynx. Burdock can be ascending or descending, there is evacuation of wind-heat, detoxification of the pharynx; raw licorice can be cleansing can be resolved, there is clearing heat and detoxification, moistening the lungs to stop coughing power. The two drugs together, both greatly increase the effectiveness of the lungs and wind, detoxification and pharyngeal, but also slow burdock of the nature of the cold and slippery and solid protection of the spleen and stomach, so good treatment of wind-heat in the lung or fire, heat and toxins on the inflammation of the sore throat, hoarseness of voice, etc..

8. With astragalus: tonifying the middle, tonifying the deficiency of toxins. Astragalus replenishes the spleen and lungs and rises the clear yang, and licorice replenishes the spleen and stomach and benefits the qi. The two drugs are necessary to take Gan to guard the center, the power of tonifying qi greatly increased, the two drugs together, **** play to replenish the deficiency of toxin, pus detoxification effect, the treatment of qi and blood deficiency, ulcers in the sinking, the long time does not close the mouth of the evidence is particularly appropriate.

9. With honeysuckle: fire detoxification. Honeysuckle is used to remove fire and toxins, and licorice is used to remove heat and toxins. The two medicines are used together, and are widely used in the treatment of surgical ulcers and poisonous swellings, with the function of detoxifying fire and removing toxins, subduing swellings and relieving pain.

10. With umeboshi: thirst. In addition, umeboshi can be sour and astringent intestines, with licorice of the spleen to slow down the emergency, but also can treat the spleen deficiency diarrhea, intestinal slippage more than evidence.

Application Notes

1. Against dahua, coriander, licorice, seaweed.

2. Dysentery should not be used at the beginning.

3. Do not take it if you have fullness in the middle.

Use and dosage Internal use: 3-10 grams, into the decoction, or into pills. External use: Ground and sprinkled, or decoction and wash.