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Common Names
Chinese Licorice; Gan-Cao; Kan-Tsao
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LICOPYRANOCOUMARIN | 7 | Root | not available | 500.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LICORICE-SAPONIN-A-3 | 0 | Rhizome | not available | 290.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LICORICE-SAPONIN-A-3 | 0 | Root | 5.8 | 1000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LICORICE-SAPONIN-B-2 | 0 | Rhizome | not available | 40.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LICORICE-SAPONIN-B-2 | 0 | Root | not available | 0.8 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LICORICE-SAPONIN-C-2 | 0 | Rhizome | not available | 50.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LICORICE-SAPONIN-C-2 | 0 | Root | not available | 1.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LICORICE-SAPONIN-D-3 | 0 | Rhizome | not available | 70.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LICORICE-SAPONIN-D-3 | 0 | Root | not available | 1.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LICORICE-SAPONIN-E-2 | 0 | Rhizome | not available | 120.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LICORICE-SAPONIN-E-2 | 0 | Root | 2.4 | 700.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LICORICE-SAPONIN-F-3 | 0 | Root | not available | 0.4 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LICORICE-SAPONIN-G-2 | 0 | Root | 0.6 | 1000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LICORICE-SAPONIN-H-2 | 0 | Root | 1.4 | 2100.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LICORICE-SAPONIN-J-2 | 0 | Root | not available | 0.4 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LICORICE-SAPONIN-K-2 | 0 | Root | not available | 0.4 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LICORICE-SAPONIN-L-3 | 0 | Root | not available | 300.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LICORICIDIN | 1 | Root | not available | 11.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LICORICONE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LICORICONE | 0 | Root Bark | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Expectorant | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Febrifuge | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Flatugenic | 2 | Martindale's 29th |
| FLavor | 1 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Fungicide | 8 | Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp. |
| Fungistat | 2 | Weidenborner, M., Hindorf, H., Jha, H.C., and Tsotsonos, P. 1989. Antifungal Activity of Flavonoids Against Storage Fungi of the Genus Aspergillus. Phytochemistry. 29(4): 1103-1105. |
| Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gonadotrophic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Hemoglobin-Inducer | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Hemolytic | 1 | Madaus, G. 1976. Lehrbuch der Biologischen Hilfmittel. Vol,. 1-3. 2862 pp. (+ 144 p. index). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildescheim. Reprint of 1938 Madaus. |
| Hemostat | 2 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
| Hepatomagenic | 2 | Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp. |
| Hepatoprotective | 8 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Herbicide | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Herbicide-Safener | 1 | Chau (1985) in Purseglove et al. Acta Botanica Sinica, 2. |
| HIV-RT-Inhibitor | 1 | Nakane, H., Fukushima, M., and Ono*, K. Differential Inhibition Of Reverse Transcriptase And Various DNA Polymerases By Digallic Acid And Its Derivatives. Journal of Natural Products, 53(5): 1234-1240, 1990. |
| Hypercholesterolemic | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Hyperglycemic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Hypertensive | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hypocholesterolemic | 6 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |