Can pregnant women eat licorice?

　　Licorice is the root and rhizome of the leguminous plant Glycyrrhiza glabra, Glycyrrhiza glabra or Glycyrrhiza glabra. Licorice is a perennial herb that grows in sunny, dry calcareous grasslands and riverbank sandy lands. Distributed in Northeast, North China, Northwest and other places; Glycyrrhiza glabra grows in deserts or saline-alkali grasslands, abandoned lands, and is distributed in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu; Glycyrrhiza glabra grows in saline soils, and is distributed in Xinjiang, Gansu and other places.

　　Excavate in autumn, remove reed heads, stem bases, branches and fibrous roots, cut into appropriate lengths, dry in the sun until semi-dry, tie into a small bundle, and then dry completely in the sun. The cultivars are harvested in the autumn 3 to 4 years after planting.

　　1. Licorice root is long cylindrical, 25 to 100 cm long, 0.6 to 3.5 cm in diameter, with a reddish-brown or gray-brown surface. The outer skin is of varying tightness, with obvious longitudinal wrinkles, grooves, lenticels and sparse fine root marks. The texture is solid, the cross-section is slightly fibrous, cracked, yellow-white, powdery, with obvious cambium rings and radial texture. The rhizome is cylindrical, with bud marks on the surface and pith in the middle of the cross section. The smell is slight and the taste is sweet and special.

　　When peeled, the surface is light yellow and is pink licorice.

　　2. The roots and rhizomes of Glycyrrhiza glabra are relatively solid in texture, with some branches and rough skin, and a grey-brown surface; the cross-section is fibrous and has fewer cracks.

　　3. The roots and rhizomes of Glycyrrhiza glabra are thick, sometimes branched, with rough outer skin, mostly gray-brown or grey-brown, hard in texture, rich in wood fibers, poor in powderiness, and with many and thick adventitious buds in the rhizome. It tastes sweet or bitter.

　　The skin is tight, reddish-brown in color, firm in texture, yellow-white in cross-section, and sufficiently pink.

　　nutritional value

　　1. Licorice has an adrenocortical hormone-like effect. It has an inhibitory effect on excessive gastric acid secretion caused by histamine; it also has anti-acid and relieve gastrointestinal smooth muscle spasm effects.

　　2. Licorice flavonoids, licorice extract and glycyrrhetinic acid all have obvious antitussive effects; the expectorant effect is also significant, and the intensity of the effects is in the order of glycyrrhizic acid > licorice flavonoids > licorice extract.

　　3. Licorice also has anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic effects, and can protect the inflamed throat and tracheal mucosa. Licorice extract and glycyrrhizic acid have similar effects on certain poisons Grape Detoxification effect of uronic acid.

　　4. Licorice is often used to treat symptoms associated with menopause. Because licorice contains liquiritigenin, a hormone-like compound, it helps balance female Hormone content in the body.

　　5. The secondary acid contained in licorice can block the effect of carcinogens on inducing tumor growth.

　　Edible effect

　　Licorice is sweet in taste and neutral in nature; it returns to the spleen, stomach, heart, and lung meridians; its Qi is mild in nature and can rise or fall;

　　It has the effects of replenishing qi and replenishing the heart, relieving pain and relieving pain, moistening the lungs and relieving cough, purging fire and detoxifying, and harmonizing medicinal properties;

　　Mainly used to treat weak spleen and stomach, fatigue due to lack of food, palpitations and shortness of breath, and visceral irritability. stomach ache Diarrhea, cramping and pain in limbs, cough Asthma, swollen and painful throat, sores on the mouth and tongue, painful urination, swollen carbuncle and poison, and drug and food poisoning.

　　Applicable people

　　1. Suitable for those with gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, nerve Weak people, bronchial tubes asthma patients, patients with thrombophlebitis.

　　2. Do not take this product if you have moderate dampness, vomiting or swelling due to swelling.