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
BENZOIC-ACID	20	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL	9	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL	9	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BERGAPTEN	26	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Seed	not available	5.0	-0.12	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-GLYCYRRHETINIC-ACID	0	Root	5300.0	43900.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Root	not available	500.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE	14	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE	14	Root	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.
BETULIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETULIC-ACID	0	Tissue Culture	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.
BETULINIC-ACID	22	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTAN-1-OL-2-ONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTAN-1-OL-2-ONE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTAN-1-OL-3-ONE	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
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.