Licorice
Licorice is, according to Madaus, one of the oldest known plant medicines. The first mention of the use of licorice is probably that in the codex of Hammurabi about 2100 years BC.
In Shen Nung's first Chinese pharmacopoeia, 365 medicinal products were included, 237 of which were of plant origin. In this, licorice was counted as the so-called superior or royal means. This award was awarded only to plants that were absolutely harmless and used for many health problems.
Over the centuries, all kinds of famous doctors and writers of famous herbal books have reported a large number of medical applications of licorice
- Hippocrates: healing of ulcers, quenching thirst
- Theophrastus: quenching thirst
- Dioscorides: good for blood vessels, heartburn, chest and liver ailments, scabies, mnierproblems, thirst quenching, wound healing, eye diseases
- Pliny: good for the stomach, mouth ulcers
- Galenus: at fever, moisturizing, sweetener
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