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Licorice is widely used as a medicinal, food and technical plant, as a foaming agent.

In medicine

About the medicinal use of licorice is said in the ancient monument of Chinese medicine "Treatise on herbs" written 3000 years BC. E. For millennia, Chinese doctors referred the licorice root to first class medicines and tried to include it in all medicinal mixtures. In Tibet, it was believed that the roots of licorice "contribute to longevity and a better departure of the six senses." The roots of the plant were widely used in Assyria and Sumer, from where they were borrowed by the doctors of Ancient Egypt.

The medicinal value has roots and rhizomes. They are part of the drugs recommended for diseases of the upper respiratory tract as expectorant, emollient, anti-inflammatory, as part of diuretic and laxatives, as antacid and enveloping in hyperacid gastritis, peptic ulcer of stomach and duodenum ("Lycviriton", "Flacarbine"), with Bronchial asthma, neurodermatitis, allergic and occupational dermatitis, eczema ("Glitsira"), rheumatism, gout, hemorrhoids. Licorice powder is also used in pharmaceutical practice as a basis for pills and for improving the taste and smell of medicines.

In cooking

Roots and rhizomes of plants in the food industry are used in the form of extracts, syrups, as a surrogate of sugar and a foaming agent in soft drinks, beer, kvass, tonic beverages; For better knocking down egg whites.

The plant is used for making coffee, cocoa, marinades, compotes, jelly, flour products, halva, caramel, pastille and chocolate; As well as a flavoring aid in the processing of fish, when cabbage is sour, apples and cranberries are drunk, as an additive to green tea and green tea; In Kyrgyzstan - as a substitute for tea, in Japan - as a food antioxidant supplement, in Japan and Egypt - among the components of additives with bactericidal and fungicidal properties for food and beverages.

In industry

It is used as a blowing agent in industry, in particular, for froth flotation in metallurgy and as a part of mixtures for filling fire extinguishers.

In the Caucasus and Central Asia, decoction of the roots is colored with wool and koshmy. Liquorice is used in the manufacture of ink, carcass and rubber, in the textile industry for fixing paints.

In the tobacco industry - for flavoring and flavoring of chewing, smoking and snuff; In Japan - in the production of non-nicotine surrogate cigarettes.

It is used as an ornamental plant and sand-fixer.Licorice root

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