Liquorice slice Liquoric Root cuts Radix liquiritiae liquiritia glycyrrhiza Gan cao

Product Description

Basic info:

Glycyrrhiza uralensis/Radix liquiritiae/ liquiritia glycyrrhiza/Glycyrrhiza uralensis root/RADIX GLYCYRRHIZAE

Source:Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch./ Glycyrrhiza inflata Bat./ Glycyrrhiza glabra L

Chinese name: Gan cao

Herb property:Sweet,Mild

Act on heart,lungs,spleen,stomach channels

Dried roots,cut into segment. Drying by the sunshine in summer.

Before using as herb,the root cut often should be processed by honey frying.so called"mi zhi gan cao"

It's main function :Cough Suppressant & Expectorant.

This is one of the most important herbs in China, widely used in the China medicine therapy.

It was acknoledged by the world spreadly, and its extracts was exported more and more in recent years.

Producing area: Gan su,Inner mogolia,Xin Jiang

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Classic prescription:

Name of the prescription:zhǐ shí sháo yào gàn jiāng gān cǎo tāng

Herb used and quantity:Liquorice slice 15g;  Paeonia lactiflora 15g;  fructus aurantii immaturus 15g;  dried ginger  15g

Treat:typhia,after sweating,reversed flow of Qi,bowels too much times.

Plant description:

Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fischer ex Candolle Prodr.
gan cao
Glycyrrhiza asperrima Linnaeus f. var. desertorum Regel; G. asperrima var. uralensis (Fischer ex Candolle) Regel; G. shiheziensis X. Y. Li.
Herbs, perennial. Roots and rhizomes strong. Stem 30-120 cm tall, densely scaly glandular punctate and white or brown tomentose. Leaves 5-20 cm, 5-17-foliolate; stipules triangular-lanceolate, ca. 5 × 2 mm, densely white pubescent; petiole densely brown glandular punctate and pubescent; leaflets ovate, narrowly ovate, or orbicular, 1.5-5 × 0.8-3 cm, densely glan-dular punctate and pubescent, base rounded, margin entire or repand, apex obtuse and mucronate.

Racemes much flowered; rachis shorter than leaf, densely brown glandular punctate and pubescent; bracts brown, oblong-lanceolate, 3-4 mm, membra-nous, yellow glandular and pubescent. Calyx campanulate, 7-14 mm, densely yellow glandular punctate and pubescent, in-flated to saccate at base, 5-toothed; upper 2 teeth mostly joined. Corolla purple, white, or yellow, 1-2.4 cm; standard oblong, base shortly clawed, apex retuse; wings shorter than standard; keel shorter than wings.
Ovary densely glandular. Legume fal-cate to curved into a ring, densely tuberculate and glandular hairy. Seeds 3-11, dark green, orbicular or reniform, ca. 3 mm. Fl. Jun-Aug, fr. Jul-Oct. 2n = 16*.

Sandy lands, dry riverbanks, grasslands on hills; 400-2700 m. Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Xinjiang [Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyr-gyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan].