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
PHENYL-ETHYL-ALCOHOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYL-PROPIONIC-ACID	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYL-PROPIONIC-ACID	1	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Root	124.0	790.0	-0.48	Duke, 1992 *
PINOCEMBRIN	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PINOCEMBRIN	9	Shoot	9500.0	9700.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
POLYSACCHARIDE	0	Shoot	not available	8000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Plant	not available	11400.0	-0.73	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
POTASSIUM	14	Root	1790.0	11400.0	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
PRENYLLICOFLAVONE-A	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PRIMULA-ACID-A	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROPIONIC-ACID	6	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROPIONIC-ACID	6	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Root	17270.0	110000.0	-0.09	Duke, 1992 *
PRUNETIN	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PRUNETIN	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PSEUDOIONONE	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.
PYRAZOLE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PYRAZOLE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.

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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
Estrogenic	14	Australian J. Med Herbalism, 7: 29.
Ethanolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant	12	Martindale's 29th
Fatal	1	Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic	2	Martindale's 29th
Flatulent	1	Duke, 1992 *
FLavor	34	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
FPTase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fungicide	40	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Fungistat	5	Duke, 1992 *
GABA-nergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroirritant	1	Martindale's 29th
Gastroprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Gastrostimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Goitrogenic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.