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
ETHYL-LINOLENATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-PALMITATE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-PHENOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-PHENYLACETATE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-PHENYLACETATE	1	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Root	not available	1.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Root	1570.0	10000.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
FENCHONE	6	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Root	not available	84000.0	-0.09	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
FIBER(CRUDE)	0	Root	not available	84000.0	-0.81	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(DIETARY)	0	Root	not available	323000.0	-0.82	Duke, 1992 *
FLUORIDE	3	Root	not available	4.2	-0.63	Duke, 1992 *
FORMONONETIN	16	Root	33.0	1920.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE	8	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURAL	6	Root	not available	2.0	-1.00	Kameoka, H. and Nakai, K. 1987. Components of essential oil from the root of Glycyrrhiza-glabra. Nippon Gogeikagaku Kaishi 61(9): 1119-1122.
FURFURAL	6	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURYL-ACETATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURYL-ACETATE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURYL-ALCOHOL	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Laxative	7	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative?	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leptingenic	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
Leucocytogenic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Lipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipolytic	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Lipotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
Lithogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Litholytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lubricant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
MAO-A-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-Inhibitor	13	Duke, 1992 *
MAPK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mast-Cell-Stabilizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
MDR-Inhibitor	1	Castro, A. F., Altenberg, G. A. 1997. Inhibition of Drug Transport by Genistein in Multidrug-Resistant Cell Expressing P-Glycoprotein. Biochem Pharmacol, 53(1): 89-93.
Memorigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Memory-Enhancer	1	Science News, 138: 189, 1990.
Metal-Chelator	1	McEvily, A.J., Iyengar, R., and Gross, A.T. Inhibition of Polyphenol Oxidase by Phenolic Compounds. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.25.
Metal-Chelator (Copper)	1	Seidel, V., Verholle, M., Malard, Y., Tillequin, F., Fruchart, J-C., Duriez, P., Bailleul, F., Teissier, E. 2000. Phenylpropanoids from Ballota nigra L. Inhibit in vitro LDL Peroxidation. Phytotherapy Research, 14(2): 93-98.