Roasted Licorice Soup is a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) formula that is not currently available as a proprietary Chinese medicine.
Roasted Licorice Soup is from the book “Treatise on Typhoid Fever” by Zhang Zhongjing of the Eastern Han Dynasty, also known as Fuxing Wei Tang, which belongs to the yin and yang, qi and blood and tonic agent. It is mainly composed of roasted licorice, ginger, cinnamon stick, ginseng, jujube, hemp kernel, maitake, aconite, and shengdi.
This formula has the effects of nourishing yin and nourishing blood (nourishing the blood in the body), benefiting qi and warming yang, restoring the pulse and stabilizing palpitation. It is mainly used for treating palpitation of the heart (palpitation) caused by deficiency of yang, yin and blood and loss of nourishment of the heart veins, knotting of the pulse (pulse beating discontinuously, with an intermittent interval in between), weakness, and lack of qi.
Roasted Licorice Tang can also be used to treat dry cough without phlegm, coughing and spitting turbid saliva and saliva foam caused by deficiency labor and lung impotence, deficiency and insomnia (emptiness and irritability, unable to sleep), spontaneous sweating (involuntary sweating during the daytime, aggravated by sweating with a little movement), night sweating (sweating abnormally after falling asleep, sweating stops after waking up), and dryness of the mouth and tongue.
The adverse effects and contraindications of this formula are not clear. If there is a need for medication, it is recommended to consult a Chinese medicine practitioner for an interview, prescription and standardized treatment.