Licorice tablets in water have the benefits of expectorating phlegm and relieving cough, easing pain (relieving more urgent pain symptoms), clearing heat and removing toxins, and tonifying the spleen and vital energy. The efficacy and effect of herbal infusion may not be as good as that of the medicinal herbs, and it may be necessary to follow the doctor’s instructions and other medications if the therapeutic effect is to be achieved.
Licorice tablets are sweet in flavor and flat in nature. It can be used in the lung, spleen, stomach and heart meridians, and has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, expelling phlegm and relieving cough, tonifying the spleen and benefiting the qi, relieving pain and easing the urgency of pain, and harmonizing all the medicines (harmonizing the medicinal properties of different Chinese medicines). It is used for weak spleen and stomach, tiredness and fatigue, palpitation and shortness of breath, cough and phlegm, contractile pain in the stomach and abdomen, limbs, carbuncle, swelling and sores, and relieving the toxicity and potency of drugs.
Licorice tablets should not be used together with Jingdaolu, Red Daolu, Seaweed, Glycyrrhiza glabra and Coriander. With its bubble water to drink, the active ingredients precipitation is limited, in the medicinal properties of the play and the role of the herbs may not be as good, and a single use of medication efficacy is also limited, for the above mentioned diseases may only be able to alleviate, can not achieve the expected therapeutic effect.
If patients need to use licorice tablets to treat their illnesses, they need to be under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner to identify and use the medication.