Medicinal Uses of Licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra L.): A Comprehensive Review

Innumerable plants have been used widely as integral medicinal sources since the start of human civilization. The demand for herbal medicines is constantly increasing with time overtime. Licorice ( Glycyrrhiza glabra family Leguminosae) one most in foods, forms, and substantially researched on a worldwide scale. It was traditional complementary medicine against innumerable ailments including allergies, liver toxicity, gastric ulcer, lung diseases, skin disorders, oral health problems tooth decay, inflammation. constituents licorice include various essential oils, sugars, inorganic salts, resins, amino acids, nucleic acids. Biological activity has observed to be portrayed by active compounds triterpene, flavonoids, saponins. In recent years, discover its benefits, constituents, mechanism action. review summarizes therapeutic pharmacological benefits uses different health-related conditions along toxicity maximum levels consumption.