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
FORMONONETIN	16	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FORMONONETIN	16	Shoot	not available	3.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FORMONONETIN	16	Sprout Seedling	not available	25.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANCAONIN-A	0	Shoot	not available	37.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANCAONIN-B	0	Shoot	not available	20.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANCAONIN-C	0	Shoot	not available	3.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANCAONIN-D	0	Shoot	not available	0.3	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANCAONIN-E	0	Shoot	not available	8.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANCAONIN-L	0	Shoot	not available	7.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANCAONIN-M	0	Shoot	not available	6.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANCAONIN-N	0	Shoot	not available	1.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANCAONIN-O	0	Shoot	not available	5.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANCAONIN-P	0	Shoot	not available	6.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANCAONIN-P3'-METHYL-ETHER	0	Root	not available	1.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANCAONIN-Q	0	Shoot	not available	1.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANCAONIN-R	0	Shoot	not available	14.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANCAONIN-S	0	Shoot	not available	3.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANCAONIN-T	0	Shoot	not available	1.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANCAONIN-U	0	Shoot	not available	12.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GANCAONIN-V	0	Shoot	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
Antiglaucomic	3	Martindale's 28th
Antigonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiGTF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihelicobacter	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihematuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemorrhoidal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic	9	Merck 11th Edition
Antiherpetic	7	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiherpetic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihiccup	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihistaminic	2	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	9	Kashiwada, Y., et. al. 1998. Anti-AIDS Agents. 30. Anti-HIV Activity of Oleanolic Acid, Pomolic Acid, and Structurally Related Triterpenoids. J. Nat. Prod., 61 (9): 1090-1095.
Antihydrophobic	1	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihyperkinetic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive	5	Duke, 1992 *