The correct way to use licorice is to take it in water. Infusion does not effectively utilize its medicinal effects.
Licorice is sweet in taste, flat in nature, and belongs to the heart, lung, spleen and stomach meridians. It has the effects of benefiting qi and tonifying the middle, resolving phlegm and suppressing cough, clearing heat and removing toxins, relieving pain, and harmonizing medicines. Licorice can be used to treat weakness of the spleen and stomach, tiredness (fatigue), palpitations (rapid heartbeat, often accompanied by panic), shortness of breath, cough and phlegm, contractile pain in the epigastrium (abdomen) and limbs, carbuncles, swellings and sores, and alleviate the toxicity and virulence of the drug.
Adverse effects of licorice is not clear, contraindicated with seaweed, coriander, farnesol, deer antler. Dampness and bloating, vomiting patients can not take this product.
A single licorice infusion cannot fully utilize its medicinal effects and cannot achieve the effect of treating diseases. Before taking this medicine, it should be used under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, and should not be purchased and used on its own, so as not to delay the condition.