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
Prooxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	3	Dunstan, C. A., Liu, B., Welch, C. J., Perera, P., Bohlin, L. 1998. Alphitol, a Phenolic Substance from Alphitonia zizyphoides which Inhibits Prostaglandin Biosynthesis in vitro. Phytochemistry, 48(3): 495-497.
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor	1	Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pseudoaldosteronistic	1	Duke, 1992 *
PTK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	1	Uda, Y., Price, K. R., Williamson, G., Rhodes, M. J. C. 1997. Induction of the Anticarcinogenic Marker Enzyme, Quinone Reductase, in Murine Hepatoma Cells In Vitro by Flavonoids. Cancer Lett., 120 (2): 213-216.
Quinone-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Radioprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Reverse-Transcriptase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Schizophrenigenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Secretogogue	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Serotonin-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Spermicide	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Spermigenic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Sunscreen	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sweetener	5	Duke, 1992 *
Teratogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Teratologic	1	Duke, 1992 *