The difference between grass and licorice

Lingcao and licorice are the same plant. Lingcao, also known as Glycyrrhiza uralensis, is the most commonly used drug in clinical practice. Raw licorice can clear heat and detoxification, moisturize the lungs and relieve cough, reconcile various medicinal properties; roasted licorice can tonify the spleen and replenish qi, with large clinical dosage and large export volume.

Ling vanilla with plant aroma, smell with fragrance, taste sweet, fragrance is relatively rich, in the current application, is mainly used in spicy formula, such as spicy hot pot base, grilled live fish spices and so on. In the application of Ling Vanilla in a group of spicy recipes, Xiao Ming suggests that novice friends can position it in the position of the ingredients. The fragrance of Ling Vanilla is very recognizable and not easy to be covered up. Using it can enhance the types of spicy fragrance, thus bringing some hierarchical improvement, but because of its material nature, the dosage can not be too much.

Licorice and Lingcao belong to the same kind of traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effects of expectorant and relieving cough, relieving pain, clearing heat and detoxification, and relieving medicinal properties. According to different processing methods, the effect is also different, such as roasted licorice has strong effect of tonifying spleen and replenishing qi, raw licorice has good effect of reconciling medicine, expelling phlegm and moistening lung.

Licorice extract, glycyrrhizin and glycyrrhetinic acid all have deoxycorticosterone-like effects on many kinds of rats, which can promote sodium and water retention, increase potassium excretion and show saline-like effects. Licorice extract and glycyrrhizin can cause thymus atrophy, increase adrenal weight, decrease eosinophil and lymphocytes in blood and increase free 17-hydroxycorticosterone in urine, showing glucocorticoid-like effect.