Zhi gan cao-Roasted Licorice

Zhigancao
[zhi gan cao]
Chinese herbal medicine
Main effects: tonify the spleen and stomach, replenish qi and restore pulse
Zhigancao is a Chinese herbal medicine used to tonify the heart and spleen and stomach. It is made from licorice and honey. It can improve palpitations and shortness of breath, enhance digestive function, relieve dry coughs and sore throats, and neutralize drug irritation. It is mainly produced in Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia and other places. Among them, the Zhigancao produced in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia is highly praised for its soft texture and outstanding sweetness. It is often used clinically to regulate arrhythmia, spleen and stomach weakness and other problems.
Zhigancao is a finished product of licorice after special processing.
Zhigancao is sweet and flat in nature. It enters the heart, lung, spleen and stomach meridians. The main effects include enhancing spleen and stomach function and restoring normal heart rhythm. It is suitable for fatigue, palpitations, irregular pulse (such as intermittent stop) caused by spleen and stomach weakness.
Effects and Benefits
Glycyrrhiza uralensis can enhance the heart and spleen and stomach functions, relieve palpitations, irregular heartbeats and physical weakness, and improve poor appetite, indigestion, etc. It can also relieve fatigue and help regulate arrhythmia. Note that you must follow the doctor's instructions before use. Do not change the usage and dosage by yourself.
What are the main effects and clinical applications of licorice?
Glycyrrhiza uralensis is mainly used to treat spleen and stomach weakness, fatigue, palpitations and irregular heartbeats (pulse is sometimes absent).
Regulating spleen and stomach weakness: suitable for people who are prone to fatigue, poor appetite, and weak digestive function, often used with ginseng, Atractylodes macrocephala and other qi-tonifying herbs.
Improve heart function: To treat palpitations and irregular heartbeats caused by insufficient heart function (specifically irregular pulse and occasional pauses), it is often necessary to increase the dosage of licorice and use it with ginseng, donkey-hide gelatin, raw rehmannia and other qi-tonifying herbs.
Relieve cough symptoms:
According to different types of coughs, the common combinations are:
·Affected Cough caused by cold: Use with ephedra and bitter almonds
· Cough caused by wind-heat cold: Use with mulberry leaves and bitter almonds
· Cough with a lot of phlegm: Use with pinellia and tangerine peel
· Dry cough with little phlegm: Use with Adenophora and Ophiopogon
Relieve muscle spasm pain: Often used with white peony root, suitable for stomach pain and cramps in hands and feet. Anti-inflammatory and detoxification applications:
· Skin infection and suppuration: Use alone or with honeysuckle and forsythia
· Sore throat: Use alone or with Scrophularia and Ophiopogon
Food or drug poisoning: Has a certain detoxification effect!
Harmonizing drug effects:
Reduce the side effects of toxic drugs
Mitigate medicinal materials with too cold or too hot properties
Help drugs of different properties to work synergistically
·Improve the taste of medicinal soup for easy consumption