The difference between raw licorice and grilled licorice

Licorice, known as "ten prescriptions and nine herbs", is widely used in clinical formulations. In pharmacies, when we buy licorice, we will encounter the question of whether to buy raw licorice or roasted licorice, so what is the difference between raw licorice and roasted licorice? Let's take a look next.

What is raw licorice?

Raw Glycyrrhiza uralensis is also called Beautiful Grass, Migan (Migan), dense Grass, National Old Man, Powder Grass, Sweet Grass, Sweet Root and stick Grass, which is a perennial herb of Leguminosae. It has the effects of heat-clearing and detoxification, expectorant and cough, epigastric abdomen and so on. It likes the dry climate of dark and humid, long sunshine and low temperature, and grows mostly in arid and semi-arid desert steppe, desert edge and loess hilly region.

What is grilled licorice?

Grilled licorice is licorice baked with honey, that is, honey is refined into honey in the pot, stir-fry evenly with mild fire and raw licorice tablets, then leave the pot for 3 to 5 minutes, place in the baking room or oven at 60C until it does not stick to the hand, take out and cool, for quasi-round or oval slices, the surface is reddish brown or grayish brown, slightly glossy, the section yellow to dark yellow, the formation of a layer ring obvious, radiation-like, with Yiqi Zi Yin, Tongyang Fumai therapeutic effect.

The difference between roasted licorice and raw licorice

1. Raw licorice: taste sweet flat, return to the heart, spleen, lung, stomach meridian, with the functions of tonifying spleen and replenishing qi, clearing heat and detoxification, expelling phlegm and relieving cough, relieving pain and relieving various medicines, mainly treating sore throat, pain and gangrene, gastrointestinal ulcer, food poisoning, limb contracture, acute pain, relieving drug toxicity, potency and so on.

2. Grilled licorice: taste sweet flat, return to the heart, spleen, lung, stomach meridian, with the functions of tonifying the spleen and stomach, replenishing qi and restoring pulse, etc., mainly for the treatment of decreased spleen and stomach function, thin stool, fatigue and fever, cough, palpitation, pulse formation, relieving aconite toxin and so on.

Note: the efficacy and application of raw licorice and roasted licorice are different, especially the ancient prescriptions of raw licorice and grilled licorice are obviously different and can not be substituted for each other.