Glycyrrhiza glabra, also known as Guo Lao, Sweet Grass, Ural Glycyrrhiza glabra, and Sweet Root Zi, is an herbaceous plant in the family of Leguminosae and the genus Glycyrrhiza, with thick roots and rhizomes that can be used medicinally. Common varieties of licorice include honey licorice, wild licorice, Ningxia licorice, prickly fruit licorice, mountain licorice long, and raw licorice, which are planted in both the north and south of China.

Licorice looks like

Licorice is a perennial herb with mainly flat round seeds, its roots and rhizomes are stout with a slightly sweet flavor, and the stems are erect, with more branches, covered with scaly glandular dots, prickly hairy glands, and also with sparse white or brownish downy hairs.

Color: The outer skin of licorice is brown in color, and the inside is pale yellow.

Leaf: Licorice stipules are triangular-lanceolate, white pilose on both sides, brown glandular dots and sparse pilose on top of the petiole, leaflets are ovate, oblong-ovate or suborbicular in shape, dark green in color above and green underneath, covered with glandular dots and pubescent on both surfaces, mucronate at the tip and rounded at the base.

Describe licorice sentence

Glycyrrhiza can be used medicinally, mainly for the treatment of carbuncle sores, sore throat, etc., can be taken internally or externally, the treatment of carbuncle sores, will be used with honeysuckle, forsythia, etc., with the function of clearing away heat and detoxification, the treatment of sore throat, often with platycodon with the use of food poisoning, often with mung beans or with the water of the windbreak to be taken, have a very good effect.

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