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Licorice tablets are a type of medicine that can relieve cough, eliminate phlegm, and relieve asthma. They can also treat asthma with significant results. However, children, especially those under three years old, are not allowed to take licorice tablets, because younger babies are not suitable for this kind of adult medicine. If they are forced to take the medicine, it will have the opposite effect. If you need to take medicine, you must take it under the guidance of a doctor!

1. Introduction to Licorice Tablets

Licorice tablets are antitussive and expectorant drugs with a wide range of effects. In traditional Chinese medicine decoctions and Chinese patent medicines, they are often used to replenish qi and spleen, harmonize the middle and relieve urgency, and coordinate various medicines. The refined and processed licorice extract and preparations are a kind of medicine with good antitussive, expectorant and antiasthmatic effects. Therefore, licorice can treat cough and asthma.

2. Can children eat licorice tablets?

Licorice tablets are indeed effective in relieving cough and removing phlegm, but parents are advised not to use them when their babies are young, and only consider using them after their babies are at least 3 years old.

And you must follow the doctor's orders before taking the medicine. You cannot give your baby medicine at home without permission. Even if it is a minor cold, improper medication will delay the disease and cause complications. Although the parents of older babies are almost half doctors, these are accumulated experiences and do not mean that they can make accurate judgments on the condition.

3. The role of licorice

1. Protect gastrointestinal health

Licorice has an effect similar to adrenal cortex hormone. It has an inhibitory effect on excessive gastric acid secretion caused by histamine; it also has anti-acid and gastrointestinal smooth muscle spasm-relieving effects.

2. Antitussive effect

The licorice flavonoids and other substances contained in licorice tablets have very effective antitussive and expectorant effects on the human body.

3. Anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic

Licorice tablets have anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic effects and can protect the symptoms of throat inflammation.

4. Protect and nourish the liver

Licorice contains effective ingredients such as glycyrrhizic acid, which can prevent liver cell damage by inhibiting complement, thereby playing a liver-protecting role, and prevent viruses from entering liver cells by changing the permeability of cell membranes, thereby achieving an antiviral effect.

5. Treat joint pain

Roasted licorice has the effects of invigorating qi and relieving pain. It has been found in medication that some patients with joint pain found relief from pain after taking roasted licorice. Friends who suffer from pain or joint pain caused by gastrointestinal discomfort can eat moxibustion licorice to regulate the pain.