What are the effects of Licorice Licorice: tonifying the spleen and benefiting the qi, clearing heat and removing toxins, expelling phlegm and relieving cough, easing the pain and harmonizing all medicines. It is used for weak spleen and stomach, tiredness, palpitation, shortness of breath, cough and phlegm, pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, contracture of the limbs, carbuncle, swelling, sores and poisoning, and relieves the toxicity and potency of drugs.　　Licorice is used for heart qi deficiency, palpitation and palpitation with dizziness, knotty pulse, and spleen and stomach qi deficiency, tiredness and fatigue. In the former case, it is often combined with Gui Zhi, such as Gui Zhi Gan Cao Tang and Zhi Gan Cao Tang. For the latter, it is often used with Codonopsis and Atractylodes, such as Sijunzi Tang and Lizhong Pill.　　2. It is used in carbuncle sores and ulcers, sore throat, etc. It can be used alone, internally or externally. It can be used alone, taken internally or applied externally, or used in combination. Carbuncle sores, often used with honeysuckle, forsythia, etc., *** play the function of clearing heat and detoxification, such as the immortal formula of living life drink. Sore throat, often used with Platycodon grandiflorus, such as Platycodon grandiflorus soup. If pesticide, food poisoning, often with mung beans or with fengfeng decoction.　　3. For asthma and cough. Can be used alone, can also be used with other drugs. Such as the treatment of damp phlegm cough Er Chen Tang; cold phlegm cough Ling Gan Wu Wei Jiang Xin Tang; dry phlegm cough Sang Apricot Tang; the treatment of heat and toxicity caused by lung carbuncle cough spit fishy pus sputum Platycodonopsis Tang; cough saliva Licorice Ginger Soup and so on. Another wind-heat cough, wind-cold cough, hot phlegm cough is also often used in conjunction with the application. 4.　　4. used for stomach pain, abdominal pain and gastrocnemius muscle contracture pain, often used with peony, can significantly enhance the treatment of contracture pain efficacy, such as peony licorice soup.　　5. used to harmonize the potency of certain drugs. Such as flavoring Chengqi Tang with this product to moderate the rhubarb, manganese nitrate of the diarrhea and its stimulation of the gastrointestinal tract. In addition, it is also commonly used in many prescriptions to harmonize the drugs.　　In addition, the modern use of gastric and duodenal ulcers, often with squid bone, corrugated seeds, etc.. This product also has diuretic effect, so it is often used as an adjunct to the treatment of feverish urinary pain.　　Combined with soybeans, it has the effect of detoxification.　　Western medicine pharmacology found that licorice agent has anti-inflammatory and anti-metamorphic reaction function, so in western medicine clinic mainly as a palliative agent. Relieve cough, expectorant, treatment of sore throat and laryngitis; licorice or licorice hypochlorous acid has deoxycorticosterone-like effect on chronic hypoadrenocorticism has good efficacy; licorice preparations can promote the formation of mucus and secretion of gastric mucus, prolonging the life span of epithelial cells, with anti-inflammatory activity, commonly used in the treatment of chronic ulcers and duodenal ulcers; flavonoids of licorice have anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic and antacid effect; licorice is also a main raw material for the human dan Licorice is also one of the main raw materials of Ren Dan.　　Licorice is also widely used in the food industry to refine candies, preserves and chewing gum. Licorice extract is an emulsifier for the manufacture of chocolate, but also to increase the flavor and aroma of beer, improve the consistency and color of stout, the production of certain soft drinks and liqueurs; cigarettes to correct the taste. In the chemical industry, printing and dyeing industry, licorice is also widely used.