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.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
KANZONOL-I	0	Root	not available	4.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KANZONOL-J	0	Root	not available	2.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KANZONOL-K	0	Rhizome	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KANZONOL-L	0	Rhizome	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KANZONOL-M	0	Root	not available	0.6	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KANZONOL-N	0	Root	not available	0.4	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KANZONOL-O	0	Root	not available	0.4	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KANZONOL-P	0	Root	not available	0.8	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KUMATAKENIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LICOBENZOFURAN	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LICOCHALCONE-A	28	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LICOCHALCONE-A	28	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LICOCHALCONE-B	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LICOCOUMARONE	4	Rhizome	19.0	400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LICOCOUMARONE	4	Root	not available	900.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LICOFLAVONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
LICOFLAVONE-A	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LICOFLAVONOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LICOISOFLAVONE-A	4	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LICONEOLIGNAN	0	Root	not available	15.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Aphidifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 235.1999.
Artemicide	1	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Astringent	1	Martindale's 28th
Atherogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
ATPase-Inhibitor	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Bactericide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bacteristat	2	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker	1	Fomum, Z. T. et al. 1984. Erythrina Studies. Part 6: Pharmacological Studies on Sigmoidin A, B and C, Novel Flavonones Isolated from Erythrina sigmoidea. Rev Sci Technol (Health Sci Ser), 1: 55-68.
Beta-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bradycardiac	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bronchorelaxant	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Calcium-Antagonist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Channel-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Calmodulin-Antagonist	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Cancer-Preventive	14	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	3	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Capillarigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *