This product is a leguminous perennial herbaceous plant, Liquorice Root (Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch.), Liquorice Root (Glycyrrhiza inflata Bat.) or Liquorice Root (Glycyrrhiza). glabra L.) roots and rhizomes. Mainly produced in Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Gansu, Xinjiang and other places. Excavate in spring and autumn, remove fibrous roots and dry in the sun. Cut into thick slices and use raw or roasted with honey.

[Property]

sweet, neutral. act on heart, lung, spleen and stomach channels.

[Efficacy]

tonifying qi, clearing heat and removing toxin, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, relieving pain and relieving pain, and mediating medicinal properties.

1. Used for severe palpitation of insufficiency of heart qi, knotted pulse, and spleen qi deficiency, weak fatigue, lack of strength, lack of food, loose stool. It can tonifying and replenishing heart and spleen Qi. To treat heart qi deficiency, it is often used as the main treatment. Combination of medicinals Ginseng, Donkey-hide Gelatin, Cinnamon Twig are also used. Such as Prepared Liquorice Decoction. To treat spleen qi deficiency, it is often used synonymously with Tangshen and White Atractylodes Rhizome.
2. For cough with excessive phlegm. It can resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and can be used in appropriate combinations of medicinals according to the disease and is widely used. For wind-cold cough, Ephedra, Bitter Apricot Seed can be used; for lung heat cough, Gypsum, can be used L>Ephedra, Bitter Apricot Seed, cold phlegm and cough, combined with Dried Ginger, Asarum, damp phlegm cough , with Pineilia and Poria.
3. It is used for acute pain in the epigastrium and limbs. It can relieve pain and relieve pain. If the yin blood is insufficient, the muscles are deprived of nourishment, and the muscles are tense and painful, often use Peony Root, that is, Peony and Licorice Decoction; if it is deficiency-cold of spleen and Stomach, nutrient-blood cannot be warmed and nourished, often Peony Root, maltose, etc., such as Minor Center-Fortifying Decoction. In recent years, it has been reported that using Liquorice Root powder alone or a combination of medicinals cuttlebone sepium, Clam Shell, etc. to treat gastric and duodenal ulcer has good short-term results. Efficacy.
4. Used in medicinal property Jun Meng's formula. It can soften the intensity or reduce toxic side effects, and regulate the spleen and stomach. For example, Stomach-Regulating Purgative Decoction uses Liquorice Root to soften the nitrate and yellow properties, prevent diarrhea from being too severe, and prevent it from irritating the large intestine and causing abdominal pain, Pineilia Heart- Draining Decoction, Liquorice Root and Pineilia, Dried Ginger, Skullcap Root, Coptis Rhizome is used in the same way, and can be used in harmony with Hanre, which can adjust the rise and fall in a flat tone, playing the role of harmony.
5. Used for heat toxin sore and ulcer, sore throat and medicine, food poisoning, etc. Can clear heat and remove toxin. To treat heat toxin sore and ulcer, it is often used synonymously with Lonicera and Forsythia. To treat sore throat, it is often used together with Platycodon Root. To treat food poisoning, if there is no special removing toxin medicine, Liquorice Root can be used to treat it, or it can be taken with Mung Bean or soybean decoction.

[Documentation]

1. Bencao Zheng "(Liquorice Root) has neutralizing properties and has the function of regulating and tonic, so poisons can be used to detoxify them, and hard medicines can be used to harmonize their properties. It helps the outside, and the medicine is given to slow it down. The medicine enters the qi with the qi, and the medicine with the blood enters the blood, so it is called Guolao. However, do not add it to those who are full, for fear of bloating; do not use it if it is too fast. Enter, for fear of slowing down the power, you must not know it."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 3~10g. Clearing heat and removing toxin are suitable for raw use, and for tonifying the body and relieving acuteness, it is suitable to be used for broiling.

It should not be used by people with excessive dampness, fullness and edema. Anti-Peking Euphorbia Root, Lilac Daphne, Gansui Root, seaweed. Taking a large dose of raw Liquorice Root for a long time can cause edema.

[Modern Pharmacology]

Liquorice Root roots and rhizomes contain Liquorice Root sweetener, which is the diglucuronide of Liquorice Root hypoacid, the sweetening component of Liquorice Root. In addition, it also contains a variety of flavonoids.

• Liquorice Root has adrenocorticoid-like effects. It has an inhibitory effect on excessive gastric acid secretion caused by histamine; it also has anti-acid and relieve gastrointestinal smooth muscle spasm effects.
• Liquorice Root flavonoids, Liquorice Root extract and Liquorice Root flavonoids all have obvious antitussive effects, and the dispelling phlegm effect is also more significant. The intensity of the effect is Liquorice Root flavonoids>Liquorice Root flavonoids>Liquorice Root extract.
• Liquorice Root also has anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic effects, and can protect the mucous membrane of the inflamed throat and trachea.
• Liquorice Root extract and Liquorice Root sweetener have a toxin-removing effect similar to glucuronic acid on certain poisons.