Sheng licorice and roasted licorice are one medicine, but the concoctions are different. Raw licorice is honeyed to form the darker colored roasted licorice, and roasted licorice is more powerful than raw licorice in terms of tonic effect, while raw licorice has the function of clearing heat and removing toxins, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and is used in the treatment of boils, swollen poisons, and coughs.

Braised licorice is relatively strong in warming the middle, used to harmonize the spleen and stomach, benefit the qi and restore the pulse, used for the spleen and stomach weakness and tiredness, weakness, heterogeneity, that is, panic, palpitations, pulse knot generation, the pulse rate has changed when, this time to use braised licorice to tonify the spleen and stomach, tonifying the heart and lungs. And although raw licorice also has the effect of tonifying the spleen and stomach, it is not as powerful as roasted licorice and favors the effect of infiltration and detoxification.

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For both Roasted Licorice and Licorice. People often mix the two. However, roasted licorice nourishes the spleen and harmonizes the stomach, benefits the qi and restores the pulse. It is used for weak spleen and stomach, tiredness and weakness, palpitations of the heart, knotting of the pulse, and can resolve the poison of epiphyllum.

Glycyrrhiza glabra tonifies the spleen, benefits the qi, clears heat and removes toxins, expels phlegm and relieves coughing, eases the pain and harmonizes all medicines. It is used for weak spleen and stomach, tiredness, palpitations, shortness of breath, cough and phlegm, contractile pain in the stomach and abdomen, limbs, carbuncle, swelling, sores and poison, and alleviate the toxicity and potency of drugs. The efficacy of the two is somewhat different, it is best not to replace each other.

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