نتایج جستجو برای: licorice

تعداد نتایج: 1072  

Journal: :African journal of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicines : AJTCAM 2012
Mengyue Wang Min Zhang Qiyu Tang Xiaobo Li

In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), licorice is usually processed with honey and traditionally used in decoction form. However, the influence of honey-roasting on the main pharmacological activities and the water-soluble active constituents of licorice has not been reported. The aim of the present study is to determine whether honey-roasting can modify the main pharmacological activities and...

2012
Jingze Zhang Wenyuan Gao Shuo Yan Yaxin Zhao

Licorice, the oldest Chinese traditional medicine, is widely used in the treatment of human diseases. Due to the deficiency of wild resource, selecting and breeding becomes a key issue to expanding the supply of licorice. Spaceflight technology will become a new method for medicinal plants. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of spaceflight on the components and anti-inflammator...

Journal: :CJEM 2009
Christine Johns

A 49-year-old female physician presented with peripheral edema, weight gain and relative hypertension caused by the consumption of licorice candy cigars containing glycyrrhizic acid (GZA) found in natural licorice extract. Although the patient's response to GZA resolved spontaneously, emergency physician awareness of the toxic effects of natural licorice extract may avert symptom progression in...

Journal: :Yakugaku zasshi : Journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan 2004
Suguru Sato Hideo Ikeda Hajime Furukawa Yuji Murata Mayuko Tomoda

Licorice, Glycyrrhiza glabra Linn., is one of herbal medicines widely used for various purposes, including as a sweetener and for gastric ulcer treatment. However, environmental destruction due to the harvesting of wild licorice is becoming a serious problem. We cultured licorice in a hydroponic system to examine the relation between the concentration of nutritional solution applied and glycyrr...

Journal: :Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine : eCAM 2009
Jong Rok Lee Sook Jahr Park Hyeung-Sik Lee Seon Young Jee Jungcheol Seo Young Kyu Kwon Taeg Kyu Kwon Sang Chan Kim

Licorice is commonly used as a cure for digestive disorders and as a detoxification agent in East Asia. This study investigated the protective effect of licorice water extract against cadmium (CdCl(2), Cd)-induced liver toxicity in rats. To induce acute toxicity, Cd (4 mg/kg body weight) was dissolved in normal saline and intravenously (i.v.) injected into rats. The rats then received either a ...

2015
Jae-Chul Jung Yun-Hee Lee Sou Hyun Kim Keuk-Jun Kim Kyung-Mi Kim Seikwan Oh Young-Suk Jung

BACKGROUND Our previous study suggested that licorice has anti-inflammatory activity in lipopolysaccharide-stimulated microglial cells and anti-oxidative activity in tert-butyl hydroperoxide-induced oxidative liver damage. In this study, we evaluated the effect of licorice on chronic alcohol-induced fatty liver injury mediated by inflammation and oxidative stress. METHODS Raw licorice was ext...

2011
Indra Sari Kusuma Harahap Naoko Sasaki Gunadi Surini Yusoff Myeong Jin Lee Satoru Morikawa Noriyuki Nishimura Tomohiro Sasaki Seiichiro Usuki Midori Hirai Mika Ohta Yutaka Takaoka Takashi Nishimoto Hisahide Nishio

Licorice ingestion, as well as mutations in the HSD11B2 gene, inhibits 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 (11βHSD2) enzyme activity, causing the syndrome of apparent mineral corticoid excess (AME). However, the combined effect of licorice ingestion and an HSD11B2 mutation has never been reported, until now. In this study, we demonstrated that licorice ingestion can produce overt hypertensi...

2014
So Young Park Eun Ji Kim Hyun Ju Choi Mi Ra Seon Soon Sung Lim Young-Hee Kang Myung-Sook Choi Ki Won Lee Jung Han Yoon Park

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE Licorice has been shown to possess cancer chemopreventive effects. However, glycyrrhizin, a major component in licorice, was found to interfere with steroid metabolism and cause edema and hypertension. The roasting process of licorice modifies the chemical composition and converts glycyrrhizin to glycyrrhetinic acid. The purpose of this study was to examine the anti-carcino...

Journal: :Phytotherapy research : PTR 2015
Hossein Hosseinzadeh Marjan Nassiri-Asl

The roots and rhizomes of various species of the perennial herb licorice (Glycyrrhiza) are used in traditional medicine for the treatment of several diseases. In experimental and clinical studies, licorice has been shown to have several pharmacological properties including antiinflammatory, antiviral, antimicrobial, antioxidative, antidiabetic, antiasthma, and anticancer activities as well as i...

2014
Sunil Lingaraj Ajagannanavar Hemant Battur Supreetha Shamarao Vivek Sivakumar Pavan Uday Patil P Shanavas

BACKGROUND Glycyrrhiza (licorice) an herb, which has medicinal value and was used in ancient times as a remedy for a great diversity of ailments and sweetener. Roots of Glycyrrhiza contain a high concentration of saponin and glycyrrhizin, which are supposed to be sweetening agents. The aim of the study was to compare the efficacy of aqueous and alcoholic licorice root extract against Streptococ...

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