Can I eat licorice during menstruation?

Women will become different during their menstrual period. Many women are very sensitive and easily upset during their menstrual period. Due to the decline in immune function during menstruation, women's bodies are prone to various conditions. So what should we do? In fact, the best way for women during their menstrual period is to use diet to help them get through the period smoothly. Female friends need to avoid certain foods during menstruation.

So can female friends eat licorice during menstruation? We know that licorice is very beneficial to our human body. Licorice is good for our digestive system. Licorice also has benefits in detoxification and other aspects.

Licorice, also known as: Guolao, sweet grass, sweet root, Latin name: Glycyrrhiza uralensis

Fisch. Leguminosae, Licorice genus perennial herb; roots and rhizomes are thick, and it is a tonic Chinese herbal medicine. A very good medicine for the human body. The medicinal parts are the roots and rhizomes. The roots are cylindrical, 25 to 100 cm long and 0.6 to 3.5 cm in diameter. The skin has varying degrees of tightness and the surface is reddish brown or grayish brown. The rhizome is cylindrical, with bud scars on the surface and pith in the middle of the cross section. It has a slight odor and a sweet and special taste. Functions and indications: clearing away heat and detoxifying, removing phlegm and relieving cough, and relieving abdominal pain, etc. It likes a dark, humid, dry climate with long sunshine and low temperature. Licorice grows mostly in arid and semi-arid desert steppes, desert edges and loess hilly areas. The roots and rhizomes are used for medicinal purposes.

Western medicine pharmacology has found that licorice has anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic functions, so it is mainly used as a palliative agent in Western medicine clinical practice. Relieve cough, eliminate phlegm, treat sore throat and laryngitis; licorice or glycyrrhetinic acid has deoxycorticosterone-like effects and has good effects on chronic adrenocortical insufficiency; licorice preparations can promote the formation and secretion of gastric mucus, prolong the life of epithelial cells, have anti-inflammatory activity, and are often used in the treatment of chronic ulcers and duodenal ulcers; licorice flavonoids have anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic and antacid effects; licorice is also one of the main raw materials of Ren Dan.

Licorice is also widely used in the food industry to make candies, preserves and chewing gum. Licorice extract is an emulsifier for making chocolate. It can also increase the taste and aroma of beer, improve the consistency and color of dark beer, make certain soft drinks and liqueurs, and correct the flavor of cigarettes. Licorice is also widely used in the chemical and printing and dyeing industries.

1. Effect on the digestive system: The extract without glycyrrhizin and the flavonoids in licorice have a significant protective effect on experimental ulcers in rats.

2. Adrenal cortex hormone-like effect: Licorice extract, glycyrrhizin and glycyrrhetinic acid promote sodium and water retention in healthy humans and animals; small doses of glycyrrhizin (100ug each)

) can cause thymus atrophy and adrenal gland weight increase in rats, producing a glucocorticoid-like effect. At high doses, the glucocorticoid-like effect is not obvious, and only the mineralocorticoid-like effect is present.

3. Detoxification effect Licorice extract and glycyrrhizin are effective for certain drug poisoning, food poisoning, and poisoning by metabolites in the body.

It has certain detoxification ability. The effective ingredient for detoxification is glycyrrhizin, and the detoxification mechanism is the combined effect of factors such as glycyrrhizin's adsorption effect on poisons, glucuronic acid, a hydrolysis product of glycyrrhizin, which can bind to poisons, and glycyrrhizin's adrenal cortex hormone-like effect, which enhances the liver's detoxification ability.

4. Antitussive and antiasthmatic effects

Glycyrrhetinic acid has a significant central antitussive effect, and large doses of glycyrrhetinic acid can cause respiratory depression in mice. In addition, glycyrrhizin and glycyrrhizin salt have anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, anti-liver damage, anti-cancer, antibacterial and anti-HIV (glycyrrhizin) effects.

5. Regulate the body's immune function and resist arrhythmia.

6. Used for asthma and cough. It can be used alone or in combination with other drugs. For example, Erchen Decoction is used to treat cough caused by damp phlegm; Linggan Wuwei Jiangxin Decoction is used to treat cough and asthma caused by cold phlegm; Sangxing Decoction is used to treat cough caused by dry phlegm; Platycodon Decoction is used to treat cough and spit of fishy and purulent phlegm caused by heat toxicity; and Gancao Ganjiang Decoction is used to treat cough and spit of saliva. In addition, it is often used in combination for wind-heat cough, wind-cold cough, and hot phlegm cough.

In the above article, we introduced that women are different during menstruation and at other times. Many women become sensitive and easily upset during menstruation because their immune function decreases during menstruation and their bodies are prone to various problems. The licorice mentioned above has the effect of improving immune function, so it is possible to eat licorice during menstruation.