Licorice AIDS drug hope

Recent study found that licorice is not only good medicine for the prevention but also treatment of AIDS. This is a great boon for patients with the disease.

Chinese licorice root, also known as sugar beet, honey grass, grass. Is a leguminous plant that grows in sunny dry calcareous grassland on land and river banks in sandy soil. The main producing distributed in the northeast, northwest, north area, Siberia and the Urals region has produced. China husbandry Hangjinqi licorice produced by the best quality. Ancient Chinese medical scientists in clinical practice for thousands of years has always been good at using licorice. Chinese medicine theory: liquorice and sweet, flat, hepatic, spleen, lung, it can reconcile the various drugs, attending internal organs dispelling pathogenic wind, five suffer fatal injuries to lungs and detoxification, and the priorities. The role of licorice is very broad, mainly anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, anti-convulsant, anti-tumor, analgesic, diuretic and other effects.

According to laboratory analysis, made in China, 18 kinds of licorice, which contains glycyrrhizin accounted for 3.63 to 13.06%. In addition, it also contains water soluble, reducing sugar, starch, gum and other ingredients. Among these ingredients, the active ingredient is glycyrrhizin AIDS. Glycyrrhizin treatment of AIDS is extracted from the licorice out. Now Japan is from Afghanistan, Iran and other places a lot of licorice imported raw materials used to extract glycyrrhizin.

According to test tube experiments, in HIV-infected cells, 0.25 mg of glycyrrhizin per ml, cell survival can still survive; but without the glycyrrhizin-infected cells were almost dead.

Clinical trial results have been confirmed. 4 on the Tokyo hospital of seven AIDS patients into glycyrrhizin, 6 patients significantly effect: increased immune activity, immune function had resumed, the condition is improving.

Glycyrrhizin extraction easy, simple process, lower drug prices. Licorice low toxicity, side effects. Long-term large doses, about 20% of possible edema, limb weakness, dizziness, high blood pressure and other symptoms. Proper use, these side effects are expected to avoid.