Chinese Traditional Medicine and Chinese Herbs
Liquorice (Radix Glycyrrhizae)
Location found
Inner Mongolia, Shanix, Gansu and Xinjiang, China
Flavor & Property
Sweet; neutral
Effects
Strengthens spleen, eliminates phlegm, arrests cough,
relieves pain and spasm
Use
Shortness of breath, asthenia, poor appetite and diarrhea
* used with dangshen and white atractyoldes rhizome
Cough and dyspnea
* used with unprepared gypsum, ephedra, bitter apricot
kernel
Sores, ulcers and other pyogenic skin infections
* used with honeysuckle flower, forsythia fruit
Swollen and sore throat
* used with platycodon
Food and drug poisoning
* used with mung bean or ledebouriella root
Epigastric and abdominal pains
* used with cinnamon twig, peony root and malt sugar
Dosage & Administration
10-30g (boiled in water for oral use)
Precaution & Contractindication
Abdominal distension or vomiting.
Contraindicated with knoxia root, kansui root and gekwa
flower
Note: It is important to be evaluated by a health professional before
taking this drug.
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