Benefits of soaking licorice in water

1. The main functions of Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch are: invigorating spleen and benefiting qi, clearing away heat and toxic materials, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, relieving acute pain, and harmonizing various medicines. Can be used for treating spleen and stomach weakness, listlessness, palpitation, shortness of breath, cough with excessive phlegm, abdominal distension, acute pain in limbs, carbuncle, swelling and sore, and relieving drug toxicity. It is used for deficiency of heart-qi, palpitation, pulse, deficiency of spleen and stomach, and mental fatigue. The former is often combined with Guizhi, such as Guizhi Gancao Decoction and Zhigancao Decoction. The latter is often used with Dangshen and Baizhu, such as Sijunzi Decoction and Lizhong Pill.

2. Corticosteroid-like effects: Glycyrrhiza extract, glycyrrhizin and glycyrrhetinic acid can promote the retention of sodium and water in healthy people and animals; Low dose glycyrrhizin (100 ug/ rat) can make the thymus atrophy and adrenal gland weight increase in rats, resulting in glucocorticoid-like effect. At high dose, glucocorticoid-like effect is not obvious, only mineralocorticoid-like effect.

3. Detoxification: Glycyrrhrizae Radix extract and glycyrrhizin have certain detoxification ability for some drug poisoning, food poisoning and metabolite poisoning in the body. The effective component of detoxification is glycyrrhizin, and the detoxification mechanism is the comprehensive effect of factors such as the adsorption of glycyrrhizin to poisons, glucuronic acid, the hydrolysis product of glycyrrhizin, and the adrenal cortex effect of glycyrrhizin, which enhances the detoxification ability of the liver.

4. Antitussive and antiasthmatic effects Glycyrrhizic acid has obvious central antitussive effect, and a large dose of glycyrrhizic acid can inhibit the respiration of mice. In addition, glycyrrhizin and glycyrrhetinic acid salt also have anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, anti-liver injury, anti-cancer, anti-bacterial and anti-HIV (glycyrrhizin) effects.

5, regulate the immune function of the body, anti-arrhythmia.

6. Effect on digestive system: Removing liquiritin extract and flavonoid glycoside from Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch has obvious protective effect on experimental ulcer in rats.