Licorice Effects and Uses Dosage

The effects of licorice are tonifying the spleen and benefiting the qi, clearing heat and relieving cough, easing the pain (relieving more urgent pain symptoms), etc. It has the function of treating weak spleen and stomach, shortness of breath and phlegm, carbuncle, swollen sores and poisons, and so on. The medicine is used as a decoction for internal use, and the Pharmacopoeia recommends a dosage of 2 to 10g. Glycyrrhiza glabra is the dried root and rhizome of Glycyrrhiza glabra, Glycyrrhiza glabra or Glycyrrhiza glabra of leguminous plants. It is sweet and flat in nature, and belongs 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 (removing heat and toxins from the body), expelling phlegm and relieving cough, easing the pain, and harmonizing various medicines (harmonizing the properties of different traditional Chinese medicines). This drug can be used in the treatment of weak spleen and stomach, tiredness (fatigue), palpitation (rapid heartbeat, often accompanied by panic), shortness of breath, cough with excessive phlegm, contractile pain in the limbs (sudden and sustained contraction of the limb muscles resulting in severe pain), carbuncles, swellings and sores, and other conditions. When used, it should be noted that the drug should not be used together with seaweed, Kyohaku, Hongdaji, Gansui and Coriolus Versicolor. Usage is decoction of soup for internal use, Pharmacopoeia recommended dosage of 2 to 10g. If necessary, it is recommended to go to regular hospitals, under the guidance of professional physicians to identify and treat.