Liquid licorice root extract

Product name:Liquid licorice root extract

Product Description:Licorice Root Extract is from the licorice plants called Glycyrrhiza Glabra and Glycyrrhiza Uralensis. It contains glycyrrhizin, a very sweet syrup or powder which has medicinal properties.

Source:The Licorice Root Extract is obtained by pounding the root of the plant, boiling it in water, then evaporating the liquid. Partial evaporation results in a syrup; further evaporation results in a gold-brown crystalline powder. The licorice powder is 50 times sweeter than sugar.

Properties of Licorice Root Extract:
Influenza: anti-viral effects on Influenza (H2N2, Avian influenza, Bird Flu), Newcastle Disease (affecting mainly chickens and birds) and SARS;

reduces permeability of membranes (inhibits viral penetration) in cells;

it has positive effects on T-cells which are then transferable to other animals with positive results against influenza - thus it can be used to prepare a vaccine;

HIV: reduces permeability of cell membranes to HIV virus.

Herpes Simplex: inactivates herpes simplex particles irreversibly.

Hepatitis B: used widely in Japan by medical practioners for the treatment of Hepatitis B patients - though this is done on the basis of its use as a traditional medicine, not on the basis of clinical trials in humans;

Bacteria:
anti-Streptococcus Mutans (a tooth bacteria);
anti-Helicobacter Pylori (an ulcer bacteria);