科
藥用部位
主治
脾胃虛弱，倦怠乏力，心悸氣短，咳嗽痰多，脘腹、四肢攣急疼痛，癰腫瘡毒，緩解藥物毒性、烈性
注意事項
不宜與大戟、芫花、甘遂同用
不良反應
長時間（6週）超量服用（50g/day）可導致假性醛固酮增多症，其中包括鉀缺乏，鈉瀦留，水腫，高血壓和體重增加 [1，2，3]
可導致肌紅蛋白尿和肌肉病變 [4]
在慢性乙肝患者身上可見肝毒性 [5]
與西藥同用對心血管系統的不良反應 [6]
參考資料
Bradley PR, ed. British herbal compendium, Vol. 1. Bournemouth, British Herbal Medicine Association, 1992:145–148.
Epistein MT et al. Effects of eating liquorice on the renin-angiotensin aldosterone axis in normal subjects. British medical journal, 1977, 1:488–490.
Stewart PM et al. Mineralocorticoid activity of liquorice: 11- hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency comes of age. Lancet, 1987, ii:821–824.
Caradonna P et al. Acute myopathy associated with chronic licorice ingestion: Reversible loss of myoadenylate deaminase activity. Ultrastructural pathology, 1992, 16:529–535.
何吉芬 (2010)。<淺談甘草及其製劑的毒副作用>。中國中醫藥現代遠程教育，23。
Yuen MF, Tam S, Fung J, Wong D, Wong B, Lai CL (2006) Traditional Chinese medicine causing hepatotoxicity in patients with chronic hepatitis B infection: a 1-year prospective study. Aliment.Pharmacol.Ther., 24, 8, 1179-1186.
