Plant Glycyrrhiza glabra (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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
P-METHOXY-PHENOL	1	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PAEONOL	20	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	89000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Root	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PALMITIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER	1	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN	24	Root	14130.0	90000.0	-0.42	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN	24	Shoot	not available	58000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PENTACOSANE	0	Root	0.1	41.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PENTADECANE	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.
PENTADECANOIC-ACID	1	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.
PENTAN-1-OL	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PENTAN-1-OL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PENTANOIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	4.0	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.
PHASEOLLINISOFLAVAN	0	Rhizome	not available	27.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHASEOLLINISOFLAVAN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENETHYL-ALCOHOL	6	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENETHYL-ALCOHOL	6	Root	not available	1.0	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.
PHENOL	26	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENOL	26	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYL-ACETALDEHYDE	2	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.

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Beta-Blocker	2	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Bradycardiac	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bronchorelaxant	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bruchiphobe	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Bufocide	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Calcium-Antagonist	10	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Antagonist?	1	Biochimica & Biophysica Acta, 1115: 69, 1991.
Calcium-Channel-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Calmodulin-Antagonist	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	50	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	18	Martindale's 28th
Candidistat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Capillarigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Capillariprotective	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Carcinogenic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Carcinogenic?	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Cardiac	2	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Cardiodepressant	2	Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.