The effect of licorice tablets

Licorice tablets are a very common oral lozenge in our lives. The main reason people take this lozenge is to clear away heat and detoxify. This licorice tablet looks a bit gray and brown in appearance, and smells a bit stinky, but it tastes sweet in the mouth and is not disgusting. At the same time, licorice can also be used as a cooking ingredient and as a soup ingredient.

Everyone thinks that licorice tablets only have the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying, but this is not the case. Licorice tablets can also be used as a diuretic in traditional Chinese medicine to strengthen the spleen and replenish qi. If you eat one on a hot summer day, it will have some benefits.

1. Drug Description

Compound Licorice Tablets

Licorice tablets are brown or tan tablets; they have a peculiar odor and taste sweet; they absorb moisture easily.

2. Main functions

Each tablet contains 112.5 mg of licorice fluid extract powder, 4 mg of opium powder, 2 mg of camphor, 2 mg of star anise oil, and 2 mg of sodium benzoate.

Licorice fluid extract can cover the inflamed throat mucosa, masking the local sensory nerve endings, thereby reducing irritation and exerting an antitussive effect.

The mechanism of action of opioids is central antitussive.

Camphor has local anesthetic and expectorant effects.

Star anise oil is volatile. Once it enters the respiratory tract, it can stimulate gland secretion, dilute sputum, and make it easier to cough up.

Sodium benzoate is the preservative ingredient in this drug and has a certain antibacterial effect.

These ingredients work together to make the antitussive and expectorant effects of licorice tablets very significant.

Compound Licorice Tablets

3. Usage

How to take the medicine: Compound licorice tablets can be taken orally or dissolved sublingually, but sublingual administration is more effective and can fully exert the local effects of licorice sulfur extract, camphor, and star anise oil. If taken orally, the effect will be greatly reduced.

The above is an introduction to the effects of licorice tablets. I hope you can know more after reading it. The role of licorice tablets cannot be simply utilized for its heat-clearing and detoxifying effects, but we also need to learn to utilize its other effects. The effect will be better if you put the licorice tablets in water, let them dissolve, and then drink the water.