Chinese Medicine

The licorice benefits are so great that licorice has become one of the most widely used drugs since thousands years ago in China. Compared with its great benefits, the side effects of licorice are quite fewer. The applications of licorice in the West are different from the East. In Chinese medicine, licorice usually is used [...]

Licorice root (Gan Cao) is the most frequently used herbs among more than 700 kinds of Chinese herbs commonly used in Chinese medicine therapies. According to statistics, prescriptions containing licorice root account for 79% or more. The history of using licorice root, whether in the East or the West, can track back to 4000 years [...]