Pharmacological activity of licorice.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 6 Pharmacological activity of licorice [Abstract] licorice’s anti-tumor, anti-oxidation, anti-virus, anti-inflammatory and immune regulation activity of synthesis.  [Keywords:] liquorice; pharmacological  Licorice has a spleen Qi, please heat detoxification, pain management and harmonization of the efficacy of various drugs. For the spleen and stomach weakness, malaise and fatigue, shortness of breath, palpitations, cough, phlegmatic, Zhongwan inflation, twin limbs, acute pain, carbuncle swollen Chuangdu alleviate drug toxicity. Its roots do expectorant agents, diuretics and Qingfei agent, the efficacy of detoxification has expectorant. Is widely used in clinical gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, tuberculosis, bronchial asthma, infectious hepatitis, thrombophlebitis, dermatitis and so on. Particularly in the detoxification, anti-bacterial, anti-tumor effects have obvious results. Glycyrrhizic acid in licorice have a significant role in adrenal hormone-like sebum can be used for human anti-aging, strengthen immunity effect.  An anti-tumor effect  1.1 The anti-tumor effect of flavonoids pharmacological studies have shown that licorice plant isoflavones with estrogenic activity, can inhibit breast cancer cells, prostate cancer cell proliferation, in recent years, the discovery of licorice chalcone inhibition of HIV infection stronger role than licorice and has anti-cancer effects, so that licorice flavonoid compounds become the new focus of pharmaceutical sector is concerned, 10 major categories have been found in more than 100 compounds, mainly licorice flavonoids, flavonol different licorice, licorice root element, different Glycyrrhizin and so on. Experiments show that reactive oxygen species can cause DNA base damage, leading to gene mutation, and further result in cancerous cells, thus using anti-oxidants to prevent the occurrence of cancer is being more and more attention. Licorice flavonoid strong biological activity, fo