Whether or not to add licorice to a Chinese medicine prescription needs to be analyzed in conjunction with the patient’s condition, constitution and other conditions, and cannot be generalized. However, licorice should not be used if the herbal prescription contains medicines such as seaweed, Kyoho, red daikon, and glycyrrhiza glabra. Licorice is the dried root and rhizome of the leguminous plant licorice, swollen-fruited licorice or light-fruited licorice. 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 pain (relieving the symptoms of pain in a more urgent situation), and harmonizing all medicines (harmonizing the properties of different traditional Chinese medicines). Clinically, licorice can be used in the treatment of weak spleen and stomach, tiredness (fatigue), palpitations (rapid heartbeat, often accompanied by panic), shortness of breath, cough and phlegm, epigastric (abdominal), contractile pain in the limbs, carbuncles, swellings, sores and poisons, etc. However, it should be noted that the drug should not be used to relieve the symptoms of heat and toxicity in the body. However, care should be taken when using the drug that it should not be used in conjunction with seaweed, Kyohaku, Hongdaji, Gansui, and Coriander. Before using Licorice, it is recommended to go to a regular hospital for consultation and treatment under the guidance of a professional physician to identify the symptoms.