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Plant Glycyrrhiza glabra (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Commom Licorice; Licorice; Smooth Licorice; Licorice-Root
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
SOYASAPONINS 0 Seed not available not available not available Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
STARCH 5 Root 7850.0 200000.0 -0.48 Duke, 1992 *
STARCH 5 Shoot not available 15000.0 not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
STIGMASTEROL 12 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE 14 Root 24000.0 91700.0 -0.33 Duke, 1992 *
SUGAR 0 Root 30000.0 140000.0 1.64 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SUGARS 0 Root 12560.0 120000.0 0.16 Duke, 1992 *
TERPIN-1-EN-4-OL 0 Rhizome Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPIN-1-EN-4-OL 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Rhizome Essent. Oil not available 72000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TETRACOSAN-1-OL 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TETRACOSANE 0 Root 0.1 39.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TETRADECANOIC-ACID 0 Root not available not available not available Kameoka, H. and Nakai, K. 1987. Components of essential oil from the root of Glycyrrhiza-glabra. Nippon Gogeikagaku Kaishi 61(9): 1119-1122.
TETRAHYDRO-2-METHYL-FURAN-3-ONE 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TETRAMETHYL-PYRAZINE 22 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN 31 Root not available 2.1 -0.41 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
THIAMINE 0 Root 0.3 2.1 -0.44 Duke, 1992 *
THUJONE 17 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
THYMOL 71 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TIGLALDEHYDE 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antileukotriene 4 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Antilipoperoxidant 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antilupus 1 Martindale's 28th
AntiLyme 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphocytic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilymphomic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antimaculitic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial 5 Khalid, S.A., Farouk, A., Geary**, T.G., and Jensen, J.B. 1985. Potential Antimalarial Candidates From African Plants: An In Vitro Approach Using Plasmodium falciparum*. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 15: 201-209, 1986.
Antimange 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimanic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastalgic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastitic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiMDR 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimeasles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antimelanomic 10 New York Times, 3/28/95.
AntiMeniere's 1 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Antimenopausal 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antimenorrhagic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic 6 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.