Licorice medicinal value

Licorice medicinal value

Licorice sweet, nature, there are detoxification, Qi and in, expectorant cough and the urgency of the effect of pain. Licorice and other drugs with the use of treatment can not eat, heart fullness, bowel diarrhea, asthma cough, ulcer sore and abdominal pain and other pain and other symptoms.
Licorice in the "Shen Nong's Herbal Classic" is known as "honey Gan", "grass", and was classified as top grade, is a very wide range of clinical application of traditional Chinese medicine. As early as before the Jin Dynasty, our ancestors found that licorice can "rule seventy-two kinds of milk poison, solution one thousand two hundred grass poison" is detoxification medicine.

Licorice sweet, nature, there are detoxification, Qi and in, expectorant cough and the urgency of the effect of pain. Licorice and other drugs with the use of treatment can not eat, heart fullness, bowel diarrhea, asthma cough, ulcer sore and abdominal pain and other pain and other symptoms. In modern medical research, licorice can also be used to treat hepatitis, tuberculosis, thrombocytopenic purpura, thrombophlebitis, stomach and duodenal ulcer, malaria and other diseases.

Licorice in the application, the most common task is to reduce the toxicity of some drugs to help "Jun medicine" to play a role in the side of the various drugs in the same boat, get rid of patients. The ancients said: "licorice, taste to the sweet, and in the nature of the sex, there is the meritorious service." Therefore, the drug was the solution of the drug, just medicine and its sex, the table of drugs to help, the drug was slow Its speed ". Therefore, licorice medicine "and things old", "old" title.

Licorice born with Sunburn is different. Chinese medicine in the long-term clinical practice summed up: licorice raw with the pass, Sunburn is used to make up. Health licorice to heat, Reduce Pathogenic Fire, detoxification for long, for eczema, sore swollen poison, fever embolism. After the honey, the taste of licorice from Gan Ping into Gan Wen, efficacy has also changed, there are tonic spleen and stomach, warm in the cold, in addition to evil heat, lungs Qi role.

However, the medicinal efficacy of licorice is not only the responsibility to reconcile the various drugs, nor is it confined to the poison, it also has many other aspects of the effect. "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" records: "licorice has strong bones, long muscles, times the strength and detoxification of the power, can cure the five internal organs of cold and heat evil and gold soreness." "Doctors do not record" words: "licorice can moderate Gas, cough and thirst quencher, solution Bai drug poison. "Li Shizhen in the" Compendium of Materia Medica, "it is said that" together with the group of products, the veteran of the power, the rule of the hundred evil, Magic and has not and can be described as the drug in the good phase.