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
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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiangiogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antianorectic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antianorexic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antianxiety	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiapoplectic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarrhythmic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	6	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Antiatherogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	11	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchoconstrictor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	4	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility	1	Merck 7th Ed.
Anticarcinomic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.