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
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Poultice	1	Martindale's 29th
Preservative	2	Merck 11th Edition
Progestational	1	Duke, 1992 *
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer	1	Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	6	Dunstan, C. A., Liu, B., Welch, C. J., Perera, P., Bohlin, L. 1998. Alphitol, a Phenolic Substance from Alphitonia zizyphoides which Inhibits Prostaglandin Biosynthesis in vitro. Phytochemistry, 48(3): 495-497.
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor	3	Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide	2	Martindale's 29th
Pseudoaldosteronistic	1	Duke, 1992 *
PTK-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	5	Uda, Y., Price, K. R., Williamson, G., Rhodes, M. J. C. 1997. Induction of the Anticarcinogenic Marker Enzyme, Quinone Reductase, in Murine Hepatoma Cells In Vitro by Flavonoids. Cancer Lett., 120 (2): 213-216.
Quinone-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Radioprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Renoirritant	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.