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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Anticancer (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Pancreas)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	2	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticardiospasmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticaries	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	8	Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticarpal-Tunnel	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract	8	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticervicaldysplasic	3	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCFS	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticheilitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *