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
FURFURYL-ALCOHOL	1	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURYL-BUTYRATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURYL-BUTYRATE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURYL-FORMATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURYL-FORMATE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURYL-PROPIONATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURYL-PROPIONATE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURYL-ETHYL-KETONE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURYL-METHYL-KETONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALANGIN	13	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-BUTYROLACTONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-BUTYROLACTONE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-HEPTALACTONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-HEPTALACTONE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-HEXALACTONE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-NONALACTONE	2	Root	not available	6.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-NONALACTONE	2	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-OCTALACTONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GENISTEIN	81	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL	35	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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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.