Raw licorice and roasted licorice are the same drug, but there are some differences in the method of concoction and medicinal effects. For example, raw licorice refers to drying the raw material and cutting thick slices; roasted licorice refers to the slices of licorice that are stir-fried with condensed honey and then taken out and cooled. Raw licorice and roasted licorice are both sweet in taste and flat in nature, and are used in the heart, lung, spleen and stomach meridians. They have the same effect of tonifying the spleen and benefiting the qi, clearing away heat and detoxifying the toxin, expelling phlegm and relieving cough, easing the pain, and harmonizing the effects of various medicines, which is applicable to the weakness of the spleen and stomach, tiredness, palpitations, shortness of breath, coughing with excessive phlegm, contracted pains in the epigastric region (the stomach and the abdomen), the limbs and the alleviation of toxicity of medicines, potency, and so on. Raw licorice is sweet and cool in flavor, good at clearing heat and removing toxins, expelling phlegm and relieving cough, mostly used for lung-heat cough, phlegm, sore throat, carbuncle and gangrene (a kind of poisonous sores, occurring in the surface of the body, limbs, internal organs of the acute suppurative disease), sores, food poisoning, drug poisoning and so on. Roasted licorice has a sweet and warm flavor, and is good for tonifying the spleen and stomach, benefiting the qi and restoring the veins (making the veins full and smooth by tonifying the qi), and is good for treating the weakness of the spleen and stomach, tiredness and fatigue, palpitation of the heart (palpitation), and pulse junction (discontinuous pulse with intermittent intervals in the middle). If you need to use Sheng Gan Cao with Roasted Gan Cao to treat diseases, you should do so under the guidance of a doctor.