Licorice is also a very common herbal medicine, licorice has what specific effects and functions? What is the use of licorice? Licorice has what effect and role of this question by me to answer for you!

What is licorice

Licorice, (scientific name: Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch) alias: state old, sweet grass, Ural licorice, sweet root. Leguminosae, licorice genus perennial herbs, roots and rhizomes thick, is a kind of tonic herbal medicine. A good medicine for the human body, the medicinal part is the root and rhizome, herb properties root is cylindrical, 25 to 100 centimeters long, 0.6 to 3.5 centimeters in diameter. The outer skin is loose and tight, and the surface is reddish brown or grayish brown. The rhizome is cylindrical, with bud scars on the surface and pith in the middle of the section. It has a slight odor and a sweet and peculiar taste. Functions and Indications Clearing away heat and removing toxins, expelling phlegm and relieving cough, epigastric and so on. Prefer dark and moist, long sunshine and low temperature dry climate. Licorice grows in arid and semi-arid desert grassland, desert edge and loess hilly areas. Roots and rhizomes for medicinal use.

Perennial herb, roots and rhizomes thick, 1-3 cm in diameter, outer skin brown, yellowish inside. With a sweet flavor.

Stem erect, much branched, 30-120 cm high, densely covered with scalelike glandular dots, prickly glands and white or brown tomentum.

Leaves 5-20 cm long, stipules triangular-lanceolate, ca. 5 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide, densely white pubescent on both surfaces; petiole densely brown glandular dots and pubescent; leaflets 5-17, ovate, long-ovate, or suborbicular, 1.5-5 cm long, 0.8-3 cm wide, dark green above, green below, densely yellowish-brown glandular dots and pubescent on both surfaces, apical part obtuse, with short [ 1] point, base rounded, margin entire or slightly undulate, ± revolute.

Racemes axillary, with numerous flowers, the common pedicel shorter than the leaves, densely brown scalelike glandular dots and pubescent; bracts oblong-lanceolate, 3-4 mm, brown, membranous, outside densely yellow glandular dots and pubescent; calyx campanulate, 7-14 mm, densely yellow glandular dots and pubescent, the base oblique and inflated saccate, the calyx teeth 5, subequal to the calyx tube, the distal 2 teeth mostly united. Corolla purple,

white or yellow, 10-24 mm long, flag petal oblong, tip retuse, base with short petiole, pterygoid shorter than flag, keel shorter than pterygoid; ovary densely covered with prickly hair-like glands. Pods curved sickle-shaped or ring-shaped, densely globose, densely tuberculate and prickly hairy glands. Seeds 3-11, dark green, orbicular or reniform, ca. 3 mm. Flowering June-August, fruiting July-October.

Upright genus, leaves alternate, odd-numbered status quo compound, leaflets 7-17, elliptic-ovate, racemes axillary, light purplish red, butterfly-shaped flowers. Fruit oblong clamped, sometimes curved sickle-shaped or annular, densely covered with brown spiny glandular hairs. The seeds are oblate.

What are the effects of licorice

Licorice is sweet in flavor, flat in nature and non-toxic. The treatment of the five viscera and six bowels of cold and heat evil, firm tendons and bones, long muscles, double the gas, detoxification, long service light body prolonged life. Raw with fire heat, cooked with the dispersal of cold, to go sore throat, in addition to the evil heat, slowing down the positive qi, Yin and blood, complement the spleen and stomach, moistening the lungs. Glycyrrhiza glabra, long for clearing fire, to clear heat and detoxification, moistening the lungs to stop coughing power victory. It is used for coughing with phlegm-heat and sore throat. Roasted Glycyrrhiza glabra is good at warming the center, benefiting the vital energy with sweetness and warmth, and has strong power in relieving urgency and relieving pain. It is used for weak spleen and stomach, palpitation and pulse knot generation. Powdered licorice, good treatment of urethral pain, urinary tract lymph, raw grass section is suitable for eliminating swelling and poison, joints, powdered licorice, favoring the clearing of internal heat, diarrhea heart fire. The same is a thing, the concoction of the different, the efficacy of the main treatment is also different.

It is used for heart qi deficiency, palpitation and dizziness, pulse knot generation, as well as spleen and stomach qi deficiency, fatigue, etc.

In the former case, it is often paired with cinnamon stick, such as cinnamon stick and licorice soup and roasted licorice soup. The latter is often combined with Codonopsis and Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, such as Si Jun Zi Tang and Li Zhong Wan.

For stomach pain, abdominal pain and gastrocnemius muscle contracture pain

Often used with peony, can significantly enhance the efficacy of contracture pain, such as peony and licorice soup.

For canker sores, sore throat, etc.

Can be used alone, internally or externally, or in combination. The sores and ulcers, often with honeysuckle, forsythia, etc., *** play the function of clearing heat and detoxification, such as the immortal formula of the 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.

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 Xing Tang, the treatment of heat and toxicity caused by lung carbuncle cough saliva fishy pus sputum Platycodonopsis Tang, cough saliva Licorice Ginger Tang and so on. Another wind-heat cough, wind-cold cough, hot phlegm cough is often used in conjunction.

Used to harmonize the potency of certain drugs

Such as flavored Chengqi Tang with this product to moderate the diarrhea of rhubarb, mannite and its stimulation of the gastrointestinal tract. In addition, it is also commonly used in many prescriptions to harmonize the drugs.

What are the effects of licorice

Anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic

Licorice is also anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, and protects the inflamed mucous membranes of the throat and trachea. Licorice extract and glycyrrhizic acid have a detoxifying effect on certain poisons similar to glucuronic acid.

Liver protection and nourishment

Licorice contains glycyrrhizic acid and other active ingredients, which can prevent liver cell damage by inhibiting the complement, which in turn protects the liver, and prevents viruses from entering the liver cells by changing the permeability of the cell membrane to achieve the antiviral effect.

Protecting gastrointestinal health

Licorice has an adrenocorticotropic hormone-like effect. It has an inhibitory effect on histamine-induced gastric acid hypersecretion; and has an antacid and relieves gastrointestinal smooth muscle spasm.

Cough suppressant

Glycyrrhiza glabra flavonoids, glycyrrhiza glabra extract and glycyrrhiza glabra hypoglycemic acid have obvious cough suppressant effect, expectorant effect is also more significant, and the strength of its action is glycyrrhiza glabra acid > glycyrrhiza glabra flavonoids > glycyrrhiza glabra extract.

Licorice enhances the efficacy of other medicines in the formula

This is related to glycyrrhizic acid, glycyrrhizinogen, isoglycyrrhizinogen contained in licorice. For example, glycyrrhizic acid paeoniflorin has synergistic effects in analgesia, antispasmodic, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, inhibition of gastric juice secretion and relaxation of smooth muscle.

Remove bad breath

Drinking tea with small-leaf maitake and licorice, or holding a grain of plum, green olive, or hawthorn in the mouth can also prevent bad breath.

Treatment of joint pain

The effect of licorice is beneficial to the qi, pain relief, in the use of medication, found that some patients with joint pain, after taking the hot licorice, pain relief. Therefore, people with pain caused by gastrointestinal discomfort and joint pain can take Roasted Licorice.

The role of raw licorice in clearing heat and detoxification

He Bangguang said that in ancient times, such as arsenic poisoning, lead poisoning, etc., people directly take raw licorice boiled water, used to detoxification. Now, if rural people mistakenly drink some mild pesticide water, you can boil licorice to take, there is some relief. If the poisoning is serious, urgent medical attention is needed. Eat shrimp or crab caused by poisoning, you can also take raw licorice water detoxification.

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