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
O-METHOXY-PHENOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
O-METHOXY-PHENOL	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
O-TOLUNITRILE	0	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.
OCT-1-EN-3-OL	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCT-1-EN-3-OL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTACOSAN-1-OL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTACOSANE	0	Root	4.0	34.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTADECANAL	0	Root	0.0	15.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTADECANE	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.
OCTANOIC-ACID	5	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	114000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTANOIC-ACID	5	Root	not available	7.0	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.
OCTANOIC-ACID	5	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ONOCERIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ONOCERIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
ONONIN	2	Root	not available	320.0	-0.66	Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
P-METHOXY-PHENOL	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Differentiator	2	Duke, 1992 *
Digestive	1	Michael Castleman 1991. The Healing Herbs. Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA 436 pp.
Diuretic	14	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DME-Inhibitor	1	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 134.
DNA-Binder	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective	1	Duke, 1992 *
DOPA-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ecbolic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Embryotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Emmenagogue	2	Wealth of India.
Emollient	1	Martindale's 29th
Encephalopathic	1	Martindale's 29th
Energizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Enterorelaxant	3	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Enterotoxic	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Epileptigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Estrogen-Agonist	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 139.1999.