Plant Glycyrrhiza uralensis (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Chinese Licorice; Gan-Cao; Kan-Tsao

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
LICORIDIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LICORINONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
LICORISOFLAVAN-A	0	Root	not available	16.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LICRASIDE	0	Root	not available	600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIQUIRITIGENIN	12	Rhizome	30.0	1210.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIQUIRITIGENIN	12	Root	not available	70000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
LIQUIRITIGENIN	12	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIQUIRITIGENIN-4',7-DIGLUCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	20.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIQUIRITIGENIN-4'-APIOSYL-(1,2)-GLUCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIQUIRITIN	3	Rhizome	7900.0	36490.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
LIQUIRITIN	3	Root	120.0	300000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
LIQUIRITIN-APIOSIDE	0	Root	120.0	9000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUPIWIGHTEONE	0	Shoot	not available	6.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Root	3690.0	5070.0	1.33	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Root	13.0	26.0	-0.24	Duke, 1992 *
MANNITOL	18	Root	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
N-HEXACOSANE	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NARCISSIN	0	Leaf	not available	16.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NARINGENIN	56	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOGLYCYROL	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
Antiacetylcholinesterase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacne	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacrodermatitic	1	Martindale's 29th
AntiAddisonian	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiadrenergic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antiaflatoxin	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaggregant	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiakathisic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic	3	Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antiallergic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Antialopecic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antialzheimeran	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiamnesic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiamyloid-Beta	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiandrogenic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic	3	Martindale's 29th
Antianginal	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.