What are the effects and functions of licorice root?

Roasted licorice is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. It is different from the licorice we usually say. It is a kind of licorice that is baked with honey, which is also what we call processing. It is used in many situations in daily life. Its effect on the human body is also very obvious. This kind of traditional Chinese medicine is often used in daily life. What are the effects and functions of roasted licorice? Let’s take a look at it together.

Modern research shows that roasted licorice contains glycyrrhizin, glycyrrhizic acid, licorice polysaccharides and other chemical components, which have anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic effects, can regulate the body's immune function, and have anti-tumor and analgesic effects. Therefore, the main effects of roasted licorice are to harmonize the stomach, relieve urgency, moisten the lungs, detoxify, and harmonize various medicines. It is often used for weak spleen and stomach, fatigue, palpitations, and irregular pulse, and can detoxify aconite.

The clinical application of roasted licorice is mostly roasted licorice soup, which is a soup made with roasted licorice as the main ingredient. Therefore, the efficacy and function of licorice can be analyzed from licorice soup. Based on the experience of doctors throughout the ages, it is believed that the main effects and functions of Zhigancao Decoction are as follows:

1. The main effect is to nourish Yin. In the Qing Dynasty, Ke Qin's "Shanghan Lai Su Ji·Shanghan Fuyi" pointed out that "Shengdi is the main ingredient, Ophiopogon japonicus is the secondary ingredient, and roasted licorice is the auxiliary ingredient. Large doses can nourish the true Yin, which is the way to nourish Yin in the study of ancient times." Tian Zonghan's "Yi Ji You Yin Lun" in the Qing Dynasty also believed that this prescription was "the ancestor of nourishing Yin."

2. Its main effect is to replenish blood. A group of doctors represented by Tang Rongchuan in the Qing Dynasty believed that Zhigancao Decoction is a "large dose of blood tonic."

3. The efficacy and function of replenishing both qi and blood is represented by "Annotations to Treatise on Febrile Diseases", which believes that the efficacy of Zhigancao Decoction is to replenish both qi and blood, "replenishing deficiency, replenishing qi and blood and restoring the pulse".

4. Harmonizing yin and yang. You Zaijing, a physician in the Qing Dynasty, pointed out in "Shang Han Guan Zhu Ji" that Zhi Gan Cao Tang is "a method to expand the recipe of Zhong, and to regulate yin and yang." This prescription is mainly used to treat yin-blood deficiency after typhoid fever or in the recovery period of serious illness, blood not nourishing the heart, weakness and lack of energy, palpitations, restlessness and insomnia, dry stool, slightly red tongue with little coating, and irregular pulse. Or there may be long-term cough due to pulmonary tuberculosis, spitting of saliva and thin sputum in large quantities, dry throat and thirst, or blood in the sputum, palpitations and shortness of breath, a warm feeling in the heart, insomnia and excessive sweating, a weak and rapid pulse, or occasionally an intermittent pulse.

Through the above introduction, we know the effects and functions of roasted licorice. It also has a good effect on replenishing qi and blood for women. There is no difference when we use it blindly in normal times. We must do it under the guidance of a doctor, so that the conditioning effect on the body will be more obvious.