Licorice more such as soup decoction, if soak to take can take the appropriate amount of licorice, with boiling water to take, but soak the water is limited to the precipitation of the active ingredients, so the efficacy is limited.
Licorice is the dried roots and rhizomes of the leguminous plant licorice, licorice with swollen fruit or licorice with light fruit. It is sweet in flavor and flat in nature. It belongs to heart, lung, spleen and stomach meridians. It can tonify the spleen and benefit the qi, clear heat and detoxify the toxin, expel phlegm and relieve cough, relieve pain (relieve more urgent pain symptoms), and harmonize all medicines (harmonize the medicinal properties of different Chinese medicines).
Licorice can be used for weak spleen and stomach, fatigue, palpitation, shortness of breath, cough and phlegm, contracted pain in the epigastrium (stomach and abdomen) and limbs, carbuncle, swelling and sores, and relieving the toxicity and potency of medicines.
Licorice is mostly taken by decoction, and it should be noted that licorice should not be used with seaweed, red halibut, glycyrrhiza glabra, Kyoho halibut, and coriander. And licorice helps dampness and congestion of the evils of gas, dampness and fullness, edema should not be used.
It is recommended to use the medicine under the guidance of a doctor.