The debate around liquorice often centres on whether it's better salty or sweet - and yet the health impacts are often neglected. For some, even a little can amount to higher blood pressure, muscle ...

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It provides the raw material for liquorice candy, calms the stomach and alleviates diseases of the airways: liquorice root. Chosen as the "Medicinal plant 2012," the root has been treasured in ...

Frankfurt, Germany, 21st November 2011—Liquorice has been selected as “Medicinal plant of the year 2012” because of its paramount importance to human well-being world-wide. A plate from Flora von ...

Liquorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra), is a purple and white flowering perennial, native to the Mediterranean region and to central and Southwest Asia. It is cultivated widely for the sweet taproot that ...

Liquorice is a good anti-inflammatory agent that reduces pain and inflammation in the skin. Let's take a look at some of the health benefits of liquorice and its side effects. A herb called liquorice ...

Liquorice is to be produced commercially in Britain again for the first time in more than 100 years. Planting is to start this week in Pontefract, the West Yorkshire town that was once the liquorice ...

While the World Health Organization (WHO) considers it unlikely that consuming 100 mg of glycyrrhizic acid daily affects blood pressure, a recent small-scale study published in The American Journal of ...