zhi gan cao – Roasted Licorice

Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata is a tonic medicine, which is the processed product of the dried roots and rhizomes of the legume plants licorice, licorice with inflated fruit or licorice with glaze.
Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata is a processed product of licorice.
Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata is sweet and flat in nature. It enters the heart, lung, spleen and stomach meridians
It has the effects of tonifying the spleen and stomach, replenishing qi and restoring pulse. It is used for weak spleen and stomach, fatigue, palpitations, and pulse knots
Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata is a legume plant. Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata is licorice baked with honey, commonly known as processing, which is to put honey in a pot and refine it into medium honey, then use slow fire to add raw licorice slices and stir-fry evenly, take it out of the pot for 3~5 minutes, put it in a baking room or oven and bake it until it is not sticky, then take it out and let it cool.
Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata is a round or oval slice with a reddish brown or grayish brown surface and a slight luster. The cut surface is yellow to dark yellow, with obvious cambium rings and radial rays. Zhigancao Decoction has the therapeutic effects of invigorating qi and nourishing yin, promoting yang and restoring pulse.
Where is Zhigancao mainly used as medicine?
This product is the processed product of dried roots and rhizomes of Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch, Glycyrrhiza inflata Bat. or Glycyrrhiza glabra L. of the Leguminosae family.
How is Zhigancao recorded in ancient books?
“Ben Jing”: “It can cure cold and heat evil spirits in the five internal organs, strengthen tendons and bones, grow muscles, double strength, treat wounds and swellings, and detoxify.
“Ming Yi Bie Lu”: “It warms the middle and lowers the qi, relieves irritability and shortness of breath, coughs caused by internal organs, quenches thirst, dredges the meridians, benefits qi and blood, and detoxifies hundreds of drugs.
“Rihuazi Materia Medica”: “Calm the soul and calm the spirit. Replenish the five kinds of fatigue and seven kinds of injuries, all kinds of weakness, palpitations, depression, forgetfulness. Open the nine orifices, benefit all meridians, nourish the essence and nourish the qi.
“Tujing Materia Medica”: “Licorice can detoxify all kinds of medicines and is the key to all medicines.
“Zhenzhu Nang”: “Replenish blood and nourish the stomach.
“Compendium of Materia Medica Volume 12”: “Relieve children’s fetal toxins, epilepsy, reduce fire and relieve pain.
Effects and functions
Glycyrrhiza uralensis has the effects of tonifying the spleen and stomach, replenishing qi and restoring pulse.
What are the main effects and clinical applications of licorice?
Glycyrrhiza uralensis is used for spleen and stomach weakness, fatigue, palpitations, and intermittent pulse.
Spleen Qi deficiency syndrome
Often used with ginseng, Atractylodes macrocephala, etc.
Heart Qi Deficiency Syndrome
To treat insufficient heart Qi, inability to stimulate blood vessels, pulse knotting and discontinuity, as well as deficiency of Yin and blood, blood vessels not being filled, and heart palpitations due to lack of nourishment, roasted licorice is often used in combination with ginseng, donkey-hide gelatin, and raw rehmannia.
Cough
·To treat wind-cold cough, it can be used together with ephedra, bitter almonds, etc.
To treat wind-heat cough, it can be used together with mulberry leaves, bitter almonds, etc. .
To treat cough with sputum, it can be used together with pinellia, tangerine peel, etc. .
To treat dry cough without sputum or with little sputum, it can be used together with adenophora, ophiopogon, etc. .
Abdominal and limb cramps and pain
It is often used together with white peony root.
Heat toxic sores, sore throat, drug and food poisoning
To treat heat toxic sores, it can be used alone or with honeysuckle, forsythia, and violet yedoensis. .
Treats sore throat caused by excessive heat and toxicity. It can be used alone or with Scrophularia, Ophiopogon japonicus, and Platycodon grandiflorum.
This product also has a certain detoxification effect for multiple drug or food poisoning. .
Harmonizes various medicines
It is often used in compound prescriptions. It can reduce the toxicity of poisonous drugs, slow down the heat of hot drugs, slow down the cold of cold drugs, and make the mixed cold and hot drugs coordinate without fighting. It can also correct the peculiar smell of the drugs in the prescription, making it easier to take.
What other effects does roasted licorice have?
According to the documents issued by the National Health Commission and the State Administration for Market Regulation, roasted licorice can be used as both medicine and food within a limited range of use and dosage. Commonly used medicinal diet recipes for roasted licorice are as follows:
Wind poison enters the head, dizziness
30g each of stone cassia and grass cassia, 15g roasted licorice, grind into powder, 6g each time, boil 1 cup of water until 30%, take after meals and before bedtime.
Qi and blood deficiency, sallow complexion, loss of appetite, weakness in limbs
5g each of Codonopsis pilosula, Poria cocos, stir-fried Atractylodes macrocephala, roasted licorice, Rehmannia glutinosa, white peony root, 3g Angelica sinensis, 6g Astragalus membranaceus, 750g each of pork and pork bones, 1 hen.
Wash and slice the pork. Wash and crush the pork bones. Wrap the 8 Chinese medicinal pieces including Codonopsis pilosula with gauze, add chicken, pork, pork bones and medicine bags into the pot with appropriate amount of water, boil until the chicken is boneless and cooked, and remove the medicine bags. Add appropriate amount of ginger, onion, cooking wine, and salt seasonings, and let it cool. Eat in batches, eat meat and drink soup. Note: The use of Chinese medicinal materials must be based on syndrome differentiation and treatment, and should be used under the guidance of professional Chinese medicine practitioners. Do not use them at will, and do not listen to Chinese medicine prescriptions and advertisements at will.
What are the compound preparations containing roasted licorice?
Roasted licorice soup
Yinvigorates qi and nourishes yin, promotes yang and restores pulse. Indications: Yin, blood and yang deficiency, heart and pulse malnutrition syndrome; asthenia and lung phlegm, etc.
Sijunzi Decoction
Reinforces qi and strengthens the spleen. Indications: spleen and stomach qi deficiency syndrome. Pale complexion, low voice, shortness of breath and fatigue, little food and bowel movements, pale tongue, weak pulse.
Gancao Xiexin Decoction
Harmonizes the stomach and replenishes the middle, reduces adverse reactions and eliminates lumps. Indications: weak stomach qi syndrome.
Modern research progress on roasted licorice
Modern research results show that this product has multiple pharmacological effects such as anti-peptic ulcer, liver protection, antispasmodic, antiarrhythmic, antitussive and expectorant, detoxification, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antiviral, antiallergic, adrenocortical hormone-like effects, as well as anti-tumor and anti-mutation.
Gebruik
Roasted licorice has the effects of tonifying the spleen and stomach, replenishing qi and restoring pulse. Roasted licorice is a processed product of licorice, which is often taken orally. Please follow the doctor’s advice for specific medication.
How to use roasted licorice correctly?
When roasted licorice is taken orally, the usual dosage is 2~10g.
Roasted licorice is usually added to decoctions and taken as decoctions. It can also be made into powder or pills. However, the use of Chinese herbal medicines must be based on syndrome differentiation and treatment. It should be used under the guidance of professional Chinese medicine practitioners. It should not be used at will, and it is even more forbidden to listen to Chinese medicine prescriptions and advertisements at will.
How to prepare roasted licorice?
Roasted licorice is a method of preparing licorice. Cut raw licorice into round slices and set aside. A bottle of honey is set aside. Soak the licorice in honey, mix well, and leave for 4 hours. Heat a large iron pot, which must be a cast iron pot. Pour the licorice soaked in honey into the iron pot and stir-fry continuously to stop the water evaporation and the licorice is burnt yellow. Remove from the pot and cool.
Licorice can reconcile various medicines and alleviate the medicinal properties. Roasted licorice increases the cough-relieving effect.
What drugs should be used with special attention when using licorice?
Do not use it with seaweed, euphorbia, kansui, and genkwa.
The combined use of Chinese medicine and Chinese and Western medicine requires syndrome differentiation and clinical individualized treatment.
If you are using other drugs, please consult a doctor before taking the medicine, and inform the doctor of all your diagnosed diseases and treatment plans you are receiving.
Medicatie-instructies
Licorice tastes sweet, and it is not suitable for abdominal distension.
What are the precautions when using licorice?
Do not use it with seaweed, euphorbia, kansui, and genkwa.
When taking a large amount of licorice or a small amount for a long time, it will cause symptoms such as water and sodium retention, edema, hypertension, limb weakness, spastic numbness, and hypokalemia.
During the medication period, you should avoid eating cold, raw and cold food, spicy and greasy food, and avoid smoking and drinking.
Pregnant and breastfeeding women: If you are pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or are breastfeeding, please inform your doctor in time and consult whether Chinese medicine can be used for treatment.
·Children: Children should take medicine under the guidance of doctors and adult supervision
Please keep the medicinal materials properly and do not give them to others.
Avoid using copper or iron utensils to decoct medicine.
How to identify and use roasted licorice?
Raw licorice, roasted licorice, and licorice tips
All three are sweet and neutral in nature. They belong to the heart, lung, spleen, and stomach meridians. They have the effects of tonifying the spleen and replenishing qi, clearing away heat and detoxifying, dispelling phlegm and relieving cough, relieving pain, and harmonizing various medicines. They are suitable for spleen and stomach weakness, fatigue, palpitations and shortness of breath, cough and sputum, abdominal and limb cramps and pain, carbuncle, sore, and relieve drug toxicity and potency.
Raw licorice tastes sweet and cool, is good at clearing heat and detoxifying, dispelling phlegm and relieving cough, and is often used for lung heat cough, yellow phlegm, sore throat, carbuncle, sore, food poisoning
Drug poisoning, etc. Licorice root is sweet and warm in taste. It can nourish the spleen and stomach, replenish qi and restore the pulse. It is mainly used for spleen and stomach weakness, fatigue, palpitations, pulse knots, etc. Licorice root is the small part of the tail of licorice. I mostly use it raw. It tastes sweet and cool. It is good at clearing heat and relieving stranguria. It is suitable for short and red urine, burning and astringent pain, mouth and tongue sores, chest tightness and upset, and heat in the heart and stomach.
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The efficacy and effect of Licorice root soup
Licorice root soup is a tonic. It has the effects of replenishing qi and nourishing yin, promoting yang and restoring pulses. It is mainly used for yin, blood and yang deficiency, heart and pulse malnutrition, pulse knots, palpitations, weak qi, light tongue and less coating, or dry and thin; consumptive lung atrophy, dry cough without sputum, or coughing and spitting saliva, small amount, thin body and short breath, insomnia, spontaneous sweating and night sweats, dry tongue, dry stool, and weak pulse. It is commonly used in the clinic to treat functional arrhythmia, extrasystoles, coronary heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, viral myocarditis, hyperthyroidism, etc., and those with palpitations, shortness of breath, and intermittent pulses are due to insufficient Yin blood and weak Yang Qi.
Precautions for the use of compound licorice tablets
Compound licorice tablets are Western medicines and are expectorants and antitussives. They are used to relieve cough and expectorate. However, please note that patients who are allergic to any of the ingredients in compound licorice tablets, including licorice, opium, camphor, star anise oil, and sodium benzoate, and patients with aldosteronism, are prohibited from using this drug. Patients with gastritis and gastric ulcers should use it with caution.
Pregnant women, breastfeeding women, children, and the elderly can only use the drug with the permission of a doctor. It is best not to take compound licorice tablets for a long time, otherwise it may cause drug dependence, especially the opium component in it, which can cause addiction if taken for a long time. If any serious, persistent or progressive symptoms occur during medication, you should seek medical attention in time.