Licorice

(scientific name: Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch), alias: old Ural, licorice, sweet licorice root. The perennial herb of the genus Leguminosae and Glycyrrhiza, with root and rhizome stout, is a kind of tonifying Chinese herbal medicine. A good medicine for the human body, the medicinal parts are root and rhizome. The root of the medicine is cylindrical, 25~100 cm long, and 0.6 to 3.5 centimeters in diameter. The skin of the outer skin is not one, and the surface is reddish brown or grayish brown. The rhizome is cylindrical, with a bud mark on the surface and a medullary in the middle of the section. Sweet, sweet and special. The functions of heat clearing and detoxifying, removing phlegm and relieving cough, abdominal etc.. Like the dark wet and dry climate, long sunshine temperature low. Licorice grows in arid, semi-arid desert steppe, desert edge and loess hilly area. Root and rhizomatous stems are used for medicinal use.