What is in licorice?
Liquorice or licorice is a flowering plant of the bean family Fabaceae, the sweet root of which contains glycyrrhizin. Glycyrrhizin is a compound that can be up to 50 times sweeter than sugar. There's a long history of adding licorice root to the traditional medicine, to alleviate the bitter taste.
The liquorice plant is a herbaceous perennial legume native to Western Asia, North Africa and southern Europe. It is not botanically closely related to anise or fennel, which are sources of similar flavoring compounds. (Another such source, star anise, is even more distant from anise and fennel than liquorice is, despite its similar common name.) Liquorice is used as a flavoring in candies and tobacco, particularly in some European and West Asian countries.
Licorice candy
Licorice may also refer to a type of jelly-like soft candy. Licorice candy is made of licorice extract. It might as well be called as a medicine!
Licorice is a traditional Chinese medicine that has a flat nature and sweet taste. It replenishes qi and nourishes the spleen. In the TCM, licorice has many functions. It also has the roles of clearing heat, detoxifying, and removing leaching and diuresis. Licorice can ease emergency, but also play a reconciling effect on various medicines.
Licorice tablets
Licorice extract can cover the inflamed throat mucosa to cover up the sensory nerve endings, thereby reducing irritation and exerting a cough-relieving effect. Grass, licorice extract powder, natural menthol, star anise oil and other ingredients work together to make the antitussive and expectorant effects of licorice tablets very significant.
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