Abstract

GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA LINN: PLANT PROFILE, MEDICINAL USE, AND EFFECT OF LICORICE IN DIFFERENT DISEASES REVIEW

Sharvari V. Vikhe*, Sunayana R. Vikhe and Pallavi A. Sonawane

ABSTRACT

The plants have one of the most useful sources of medicine the human planting. It has a growing application for plant base medicine, health products, pharmaceuticals, neutraceuticals, food compliments and for cosmetic preparation, the nature has always been an a private source of many therapeutic compound providing with many medicine plant and micro organisms providing advantageous chemicals one corresponding plants from leguminosae family is licorice and the scientific name is glycyrrhizin glbra Linn . The herd is having the vegetative medicinal value. These several compounds such as glycrrihzincyrrihiza glabra having pharmacological well being to us with anticancer, antiatherogenic., isoliquritine, a glycyrrhizinic acid, isoliquritine and glycyrrizinc acid have been demolished in plants. These glyntidiabetic, antiastamatic, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial and antiplasmodic activity. Administration revealed that the presence of Flavonoids, tannins, steroids, saponnins, glycosides, proteins and sugar. The results are very encouraging and indicates this herb should be studies more considerably to confirm these result and revel the potential therapeutic effects.

Keywords: Glycyrrhiza glabra, Pharmacological action, Medicine, Licorice.