Licorice, also known as “national old”, is the most commonly used herbs, the annual production and dosage is rising every year, and even “no licorice is not a prescription” said. The Compendium of Materia Medica” records, Hongjing said: this grass is the most of the Lord of the medicine, the prescription is rarely not used, as if the incense in the incense. The old man that is the name of the emperor, although not the king and for the king of the Zong, is to be able to peace and grass and stone and resolve the poison also. Zhen Quan said: all drugs in the licorice for the king, the treatment of seventy-two kinds of milk stone poison, to solve one thousand two hundred kinds of grass and tree poison, and all the drugs have the merit, so there is the old country of the number. The Legend of Licorice Once upon a time, there was a herbalist in a remote mountain village. One day, the herbalist went out to treat a villager but did not return, and many people came to his home to seek treatment. Bone-setter’s wife secretly thought: husband usually for people to see a doctor, not those herbs, why do not I pack some herbs for him to these people seeking medical treatment to get rid of it? She suddenly remembered that there was a pile of grass sticks in front of the stove where the fire was burning, and picked up one and took a bite, feeling a little sweet. So she cut these sticks into small slices, wrapped them up in small packets of paper, and sent them one by one to those who came to see the doctor, saying, “This is the medicine left by the old man of our family, you can take it back and use it to decoct water to drink, and when you finish drinking it, you’ll be fine.” Those who had been waiting anxiously for the sick people are very happy to hear, each took a packet of medicine to say goodbye and thank you and go. A few days later, several people brought gifts to thank the herbalist, saying that after eating the medicine he left, they got well, the herbalist froze. His wife had something in mind, quietly took him aside, so and so whispered something to him, he realized. He asked his wife what kind of medicine she had given him, and she brought him a stick of hay from the fire and said, “This is the kind of hay I gave them.” The herbalist asked the men what illnesses they had originally had. They answered that some of them had weak spleen and stomach, some had cough and phlegm, some had sore throat, and some had poisoned and swollen. But after eating the “hay”, they were all cured. From then on, the herbalist used “hay” as a traditional Chinese medicine to treat weak spleen and stomach, abdominal pain and loose stools, sore throat and carbuncle sores. Not only that, but the doctor also let it harmonize all the medicines, each post of medicine are added one or two money into it, and formally “hay” named “licorice”, from then on, licorice has been used down. Source: The dried roots and rhizomes of licorice, licorice with swollen fruit, or licorice with light fruit, family Leguminosae. Origin: Licorice is mainly produced in Inner Mongolia, Gansu and Xinjiang. Taste: Sweet, flat, with a special sweet flavor. Attributes to the heart, lung, spleen and stomach meridians. Effects: Tonifying the spleen and benefiting qi, expelling phlegm and relieving cough, easing pain, clearing heat and detoxifying, harmonizing all medicines. Attention to Use 1. It should not be used together with Jing Da Ji, Seaweed and Coriander. 2, this product helps dampness and congestion of the evils of gas, dampness, fullness, edema should not be used. 3, large doses for a long time can lead to water and sodium retention, causing edema. How to take licorice 1, used for heart qi insufficiency, pulse knot generation, heart palpitations. Licorice can benefit the qi and restore the pulse, and is mainly used for heart qi insufficiency, resulting in pulse junction and palpitations. 2, Spleen qi deficiency. It is often combined with ginseng, atractylodes, astragalus and so on. 3, cough and asthma. Effective when used alone. It can be used with or without phlegm for various kinds of coughs and asthma with or without phlegm. 4, epigastric, abdominal, limb contracture pain. Good at relieving pain, often used with white peony. 5, heat sores, sore throat and drug and food poisoning. 6, in many formulas to play the role of harmonization of all drugs. In addition, licorice with honey-roasted after the medicinal properties become slightly warm, can be enhanced to tonify the heart and spleen qi and moisten the lungs to relieve cough effect.