The efficacy and function of raw licorice

Licorice is a perennial herb. This plant has important roots and rhizomes, and has important properties. It is sweet and mild in nature. It enters the heart, lungs, and stomach meridians, and has a good effect of nourishing the spleen and replenishing qi. The active ingredients of licorice mainly include glycyrrhizic acid and glycyrrhizic polysaccharides. Therefore, it is better for us to understand the effects and functions of licorice in our daily life.

There are many functions and effects of raw licorice. Let’s take a look at the effects of licorice on nourishing the spleen and replenishing qi. In ancient times, there were many records of the effects of licorice. Li Dongyuan pointed out: "The fullness of vital energy comes from the fullness of the spleen and stomach qi, which can then nourish the vital energy", emphasizing the nourishing role of the spleen and stomach on the vital energy. Whether it is "innate essence" or "acquired essence", it requires the spleen and stomach to provide nutrition continuously in order to flourish and maintain the normal progress of life activities. This shows that spleen and stomach maintenance is the top priority of health preservation.

Clearing away heat and detoxifying, licorice is warm in nature, and has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, and is effective in treating poisonous diseases and symptoms such as pain, swelling, and carbuncle. It can relieve acute pain and, when used in combination with other medicines, can gradually relieve more acute and severe symptoms. Sweetness has a soothing effect. After using licorice, the medicinal properties of each medicine will be slightly sweeter and slower, which naturally has a kind of harmonizing effect. It also has the effect of delaying and prolonging its effectiveness.

Licorice powder, licorice extract, glycyrrhizin and glycyrrhetinic acid all have deoxycorticosterone-like effects, which can reduce urine and sodium excretion and increase potassium excretion in healthy humans and a variety of animals. Glycyrrhizic acid has an inhibitory effect on cotton ball granuloma, formaldehyde edema, tuberculin reaction, and subcutaneous granuloma cystic inflammation in rats. Glycyrrhizinamide and sodium glycyrrhizinate can effectively affect the exudative and proliferative phases of subcutaneous granulomatous inflammation, and their anti-inflammatory strength is weaker than or close to that of cortisone.

Licorice is a kind of medicine with medicinal properties. This kind of Chinese medicine has very good medicinal properties and can help us treat a variety of diseases. It is recommended that people should know more about the effects and functions of raw licorice in their daily lives. This is the most important knowledge point.