Licorice tablets for cough in children need to be taken under adult supervision in consultation with a physician or pharmacist. Licorice tablets drug instructions clearly indicate that children need to consult a physician or pharmacist for medication, and the drug must be taken under adult supervision. However, because licorice tablets contain opioid drug ingredients, which are addictive, long-term use or overdose of licorice tablets may produce dependence and easily cause harm to the body, such as yawning, runny nose, anxiety, abnormal sweating and other phenomena, and withdrawal reactions may occur after stopping the medication, so minors taking licorice tablets need to consult with a doctor. Licorice tablets are contraindicated in people who are allergic to licorice tablets and ingredients, and in patients with aldosteronism. Children cough, timely find the causes of cough, such as upper respiratory tract infections, anti-infective treatment, at the same time the use of phlegm medication, only the emergence of severe cough, affecting the normal sleep, it is recommended to use cough medication. Therefore, the child cough to eat licorice tablets, need to go to the hospital, under the guidance of the doctor to take.