English name: the northwest origin of copyright roots
Latin name: licorice
Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch is a perennial herb in Leguminosae. In late autumn, the pods split, and the seeds walked on the land with the wind, naturally multiplying. The stem is straight and upright; Roots are cylindrical, three or four centimeters in diameter, five or six centimeters in size, more than one meter in length, and the longest is three or four meters.
Glycyrrhiza uralensis mostly grows in arid and semi-arid desert grassland, desert edge and loess hilly area, and it is also easy to breed in fields and floodplains in the Yellow River irrigation area. Strong adaptability and strong resistance, it is worthy of being an expert in drought resistance in the plant world and a pioneer in fighting sandstorms.
Use of licorice
Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch is flat in nature and sweet in taste, and has pharmacological effects such as detoxification, expectorant, analgesia, spasmolysis and even anticancer. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that licorice can tonify spleen and qi, relieve cough and moisten lung, detoxify urgently and harmonize hundreds of medicines. Clinical application is divided into "raw use" and "honey preparation". Can be used for treating sore throat, sore, ulcer, gastrointestinal ulcer, antidote and food poisoning. Honey baking is mainly used to treat hypofunction of spleen and stomach, thin stool, fatigue and fever, cough and palpitation.
Western medicine pharmacology has found that licorice has anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic effects, so it is mainly used as a moderator in western medicine clinic. Cough and phlegm, treat sore throat and laryngitis; Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch or glycyrrhetinic acid has the function of deoxycorticosterone, which has a good effect on chronic adrenal hypofunction. Glycyrrhiza uralensis preparation can promote the formation and secretion of gastric mucus, prolong the life of epithelial cells, and has anti-inflammatory activity, which is often used to treat chronic ulcer and duodenal ulcer. Licorice flavonoids have anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic and antacid effects. Licorice is also one of the main raw materials in Ren Dan.
Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch is also widely used in food industry to extract candy, preserves and chewing gum. Licorice extract is an emulsifier for making chocolate, which can also increase the taste and fragrance of beer, improve the consistency and color of dark beer, and make some soft drinks and sweet wine. Cigarette flavor. Ural licorice is also widely used in chemical industry and printing and dyeing industry.
Lao Guo-the king of all kinds of drugs
Licorice has been used as medicine for a long time. As early as more than two thousand years ago, Shennong Herbal Classic listed it as a good medicine. Tao Hongjing, a medical scientist in the Southern Dynasties, respected licorice as "the old man of the country" and said: "This grass is the king of many medicines, and there are very few people who don't use it in ancient books." "the country is old", that is, the name of the empire. The reason why Ural Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch is regarded as the "imperial doctor" of medicine is just as Li Shizhen explained in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Among all the medicines, Ural Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch is the king, treating 72 kinds of milk stone poisoning, resolving 1,200 kinds of plant poisoning and reconciling various medicines, so it is called" the old country ".
According to the determination, the content of glycyrrhizic acid in licorice is about 10%, and there are many components such as mannitol and glucose. Because glycyrrhizic acid is 50 times sweeter than sucrose, licorice is really a "sweet grass".
Processing of Ural Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch —— Ercao Wujie
Dig holes, remove fibrous roots and dry them in the spring and autumn. The dug Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch strictly abides by the traditional technology when processing, so that the skin is clean and the body is dry, the single piece is straight, the knives are seen at both ends, the caliber is new, the roots are separated and classified.
Licorice. The stem is divided into "two grasses" and the root is divided into "five sections" according to the position and quality of the material.
The stem is divided into two kinds of grass, namely white grass, namely peeled fresh grass; Big grass is a suitable stem for medicine.
The root is divided into five segments: large segment, middle segment, small segment, hairy tip and pimple head.
Note that it is not suitable to be used with Euphorbia Euphorbia, Daphne genkwa and Gansui.
Store in a ventilated and dry place to prevent insects from eating.
Source This product is the dried root and rhizome of Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch. Glycyrrhiza inflata Or Glycyrrhiza glabra of Leguminosae. Dig holes, remove fibrous roots and dry them in the spring and autumn.