The medicinal part of licorice is the root and rhizome, which is characterized by thick, cylindrical slices.
Licorice is the dried root and rhizome of licorice, licorice with swollen fruit or licorice with light fruit of the legume family, the character is cylindrical thick sheet. The outer skin is loose and tight, the surface is reddish brown or grayish brown, with remarkable longitudinal wrinkles, grooves, lenticels and sparse fine root scars. The texture is firm, slightly fibrous in section, yellowish white, powdery, forming a layer ring obviously, ray radial, some with fissures.
This herb is sweet and neutral in taste, and is attributed to the heart, lung, spleen and stomach meridians. It has the effects of tonifying the spleen and benefiting the qi, clearing heat and removing toxins, expelling phlegm and relieving cough, easing the pain (relieving more urgent pain symptoms), and harmonizing the herbs (harmonizing the medicinal properties of different herbs). It can be used to treat weak spleen and stomach, tiredness, palpitation, shortness of breath, cough and phlegm, carbuncle, swelling and sores, and relieve drug toxicity.
If you need this herb, you need to do it under the identification of professional Chinese medicine practitioners and take it according to the doctor’s prescription.