GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA
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OTHER NAMESTamil: Ati-maduram (root)
English: Sweetwood ; Liquorice Telugu: Yasht-madhukam Malayalam: Jestamaddu Kannada: Jestamaddu Marathi: Jashtimadh Hindi: Mithilakdi Sanskrit: Yashti-madhu |
description & usage
Arabia, Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, Turkestan, Asia-Minor, Siberia etc., but the root is cultivated in the Punjab, sub-Himalayan tracts from the Chenab eastwards, Sind and Peshawar Valley, Burma and Andaman Islands. Dried liquorice roots are found in all the bazars of India. The root is more sweetness than sugar.
Uses:
Root is also used in scorpion-sting. Root in infusion, extract or lozenge is useful as a demulcent in inflammatory affection or irritable conditions of the bronchial tubes, bowels and catarrh of the genito-urinary passages, cough, hoarseness, sorethroat, asthma, dysuria, ardor urine, etc., also used as a tonic and as a slight laxative.
How to Use:
Root mixed with lime-juice and lin seed makes a homely valuable remedy for coughs and colds, "feverishness, pain, distress of breathing and to allay thirst." The compound powder which consist of liquorice root and fennel fruit each 1 part, senna 2 parts, sublimed sulpur 6 parts and refined sugar all powdered and mixed together, is useful as a gentle laxative, given to delicate patients. A mixture containing extracted juice of Liquorice roots and extracted juice of Hermaphrodite amaranth taken with honey is a sovereign cure for all sorts of leucorrhoea and other uterine complaints.
Parts Used:
Roots
Taste:
Sweetness
Action:
Emollient, laxative, tonic
Uses:
Root is also used in scorpion-sting. Root in infusion, extract or lozenge is useful as a demulcent in inflammatory affection or irritable conditions of the bronchial tubes, bowels and catarrh of the genito-urinary passages, cough, hoarseness, sorethroat, asthma, dysuria, ardor urine, etc., also used as a tonic and as a slight laxative.
How to Use:
Root mixed with lime-juice and lin seed makes a homely valuable remedy for coughs and colds, "feverishness, pain, distress of breathing and to allay thirst." The compound powder which consist of liquorice root and fennel fruit each 1 part, senna 2 parts, sublimed sulpur 6 parts and refined sugar all powdered and mixed together, is useful as a gentle laxative, given to delicate patients. A mixture containing extracted juice of Liquorice roots and extracted juice of Hermaphrodite amaranth taken with honey is a sovereign cure for all sorts of leucorrhoea and other uterine complaints.
Parts Used:
Roots
Taste:
Sweetness
Action:
Emollient, laxative, tonic
