Chinese Licorice, Gan-cao
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 This
perennial is direct-seeded after soaking the seeds. A root medicine,
licorice grows well in soft alkaline soils, spreading rhizomes out
from the original plant. It is best to dedicate a plot for licorice
only as it spreads vigorously underground each year, sending up delicate
foliage from new roots.
Grow specs: Space plants 1 1/2 feet apart. 1 1/2 feet tall,
and spreading. Rich, sandy, well drained soil. Full sun. Traditional
uses have been for weak spleen and stomach energy, coughs, ulcers,
hepatitis and as a detoxicant for food and medicine poisoning. It
is often used in Chinese medicine to mediate the medicinal character
of other herbs.
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Glycyrrhiza
uralensis, Chinese Licorice, Gan-cao