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Chinese Traditional Herb Medicine
1. Pharmaceutical name:Radix Glycyrrhizae Uralensis.
2. Latin botanical name:
Glycyrrhiza glabra L. var. glandulifera, Rega
Glycyrrhiza inflata Batal
3. Common Name:Licorice root.
4.Properties (characteristics):
Sweet in smell and peculiarly sweet in taste. It is about five hundred times the sweetness of cane sugar.
5.Channels (meridians) entered:
all 12 channels, mainly the heart, lung, spleen and stomach channels.
6. Actions & Indications:tonifies pi (spleen), enhances qi, clears heat, rids of toxins, expels phlegm and stops cough, stops pain, synergizes other herbs. Being used in spleen and stomach weakness, tired and lack of strength, palpitation and short of breath, cough with abundance of phlegm, stomach and solar plexus pain, spastic painful limbs, boils, to reduce toxicity of other herbs.
7. Medical Function:
1). adrenocortical hormone function As early as 1946 gan cao extract showed the characteristics of mineralcorticoid. Glycyrrhiza is metabolically converted to glycyrrhetic acid (GA). GA, when incubated in-vitro with adrenal gland cells increases DHEA production.
2). effects on digestive system: a. anti ulcer b. anti convulsion. c. promotes secretion of insulin. d. protects liver from toxin.
3). anti inflammation
4). anti allergy
5). anti cancer: Saponins stimulate the immune system and inhibit Epstein-Barr virus expression and possess in-vitro (in the test tube) anti-cancer activities. Epstein_Barr virus is associated in certain cancer development. Glycyrrhiza also contains quercetin that has anticancer effects. Glycyrrhiza lowers serum testosterone levels and correspondingly increases estrogen levels by inducing two enzymes called 17-ß-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase and aromatase thus inhibit prostate cancer cells.
6). anti virus and bacteria: a. anti HIV b. anti amoeba and bacteria
7). effect on blood vessels: a. lower blood lipids. Both saponins and licoflavones are known to bind to cholesterol and bile acids and have surfactant properties.