Several ways to eat licorice

I believe everyone is familiar with licorice. Licorice is a common Chinese medicine. We can use licorice to prevent and treat diseases. In addition, licorice also has good health care effects. Therefore, we must know how to use licorice to serve us. Below we will introduce to you several ways to eat licorice, hoping to be helpful to everyone.

Licorice is a very common Chinese medicinal material in our daily life. It has many effects on the human body and is very beneficial, so we can often come into contact with it in daily life. So how to eat licorice? Let's find out below.

With the deepening of licorice medical research and increased development efforts, the market demand for licorice is also increasing year by year, and the market prospects are becoming increasingly broad. Domestic licorice is mainly produced in Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan and Baiyin areas along the Hexi Corridor in Gansu.

First of all, licorice grows mostly in arid and semi-arid desert steppes, desert edges and loess hilly areas, and is also easy to reproduce in the fields and river beaches in the Yellow River irrigation area. It has strong adaptability and strong resistance to adversity. In our country, licorice grows in Northwest, North China and Northeast China. It likes dry climate, is cold-resistant, and grows wild on arid calcareous soil, in well-drained sandy loam with low groundwater level. Avoid high groundwater levels and acidic soils in waterlogged areas. Neutral or slightly alkaline soil is preferred.

Moreover, the main functions of licorice are to treat cold and heat in the internal organs, strengthen tendons and bones, grow muscles, increase strength, detoxify, and long-term use of licorice can make the body lighter and prolong life. When used raw, it can purge heat; when used cooked, it can dissipate superficial cold, relieve sore throat, eliminate evil heat, soothe the body's qi, nourish yin and blood, tonify the spleen and stomach, and moisten the lungs.

The method of taking licorice is to decoct it and take it orally as prescribed in the prescription. If you only use licorice root, you can soak 3-5 grams of it in boiling water every day. The effects of licorice are: invigorating qi and tonifying the middle; relieving acute pain; moistening the lungs and relieving cough; purging fire and detoxifying; harmonizing various medicines. It is mainly used to treat: fatigue and poor appetite; thin muscles and sallow face; palpitations and shortness of breath; abdominal pain and loose stools; cramps and pain in the limbs; irritability; cough and asthma; sore throat; swollen and painful carbuncles; fetal toxicity in children; and drug and food poisoning.

In the above article, we introduced what licorice is. We know that licorice can not only be used as medicine but also has good health care effects. There are many ways to eat licorice. Above we introduced in detail several ways to eat licorice.