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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
P-METHOXY-PHENOL 1 Root Essent. Oil *
PAEONOL 20 Rhizome Essent. Oil 89000.0 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Root Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PALMITIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER 1 Root *
PALMITIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER 1 Root Essent. Oil *
PECTIN 24 Root 14130.0 90000.0 -0.42 *
PECTIN 24 Shoot 58000.0 1.00 *
PENTACOSANE 0 Root 0.1 41.0 *
PENTADECANE 0 Root Kameoka, H. and Nakai, K. 1987. Components of essential oil from the root of Glycyrrhiza-glabra. Nippon Gogeikagaku Kaishi 61(9): 1119-1122.
PENTADECANOIC-ACID 1 Root Kameoka, H. and Nakai, K. 1987. Components of essential oil from the root of Glycyrrhiza-glabra. Nippon Gogeikagaku Kaishi 61(9): 1119-1122.
PENTAN-1-OL 0 Rhizome Essent. Oil *
PENTAN-1-OL 0 Root *
PENTANOIC-ACID 0 Root 4.0 Kameoka, H. and Nakai, K. 1987. Components of essential oil from the root of Glycyrrhiza-glabra. Nippon Gogeikagaku Kaishi 61(9): 1119-1122.
PHASEOLLINISOFLAVAN 0 Rhizome 27.0 *
PHASEOLLINISOFLAVAN 0 Root *
PHENETHYL-ALCOHOL 6 Rhizome Essent. Oil *
PHENETHYL-ALCOHOL 6 Root 1.0 Kameoka, H. and Nakai, K. 1987. Components of essential oil from the root of Glycyrrhiza-glabra. Nippon Gogeikagaku Kaishi 61(9): 1119-1122.
PHENOL 26 Root *
PHENOL 26 Root Essent. Oil *
PHENYL-ACETALDEHYDE 2 Root Kameoka, H. and Nakai, K. 1987. Components of essential oil from the root of Glycyrrhiza-glabra. Nippon Gogeikagaku Kaishi 61(9): 1119-1122.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiporphyric 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiprogestational 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiprolactin 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiproliferant 6 *
Antiproliferative 2 *
Antiprostaglandin 6 *
Antiprostanoid 1 *
Antiprostatadenomic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 5 *
Antiproteinuric 1 *
Antipruritic 3 Merck 11th Edition
Antipsoriac 5 *
Antipyretic 7 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antipyruvetic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiradicular 16 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiRaynaud's 3 *
Antiretinopathic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiretinotic 1 *
AntiReye's 1 Martindale's 29th
Antirheumatalgic 2 Martindale's 28th