If the patient meets the indications of licorice disease, usually can drink licorice during menstruation. However, the specific medication needs to be under the guidance of a physician.
Licorice has the efficacy of benefiting the qi and tonifying the middle, moisturizing the lungs and relieving coughs, and easing the pain (relieving more urgent pain symptoms). It is used for treating spleen deficiency and tiredness, heart deficiency and palpitation, cough and asthma, carbuncle and gangrene (a kind of poisonous sores, acute suppurative disease occurring on the surface of the body, limbs, and internal organs) laryngeal paralysis (redness, swelling, and pain in the pharynx, or dryness, foreign body sensation, or itchy discomfort in the pharynx and difficulty in swallowing), and poisoning by medicinal food.
Note that licorice taken in large quantities or given in small quantities for long periods of time can cause toxic reactions such as water-sodium retention, edema, hypertension, weakness of the limbs, and spasmodic numbness. Licorice should not be used in the same way as seaweed, halibut, glycyrrhiza glabra and coriander.
If you need to drink licorice during menstruation, it is recommended to use it under the guidance of a medical professional.