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Additional Comments: Liquorice was one of the most widely known medicines in ancient history, and records of its use include Assyrian tablets of around 2000 BC and Chinese herbals of the same period.
Liquorice Extract was known in the times of Dioscorides and appears to have been in common use in Germany during the Middle Ages. In 1264, Liquorice (apparently the extract, not the root) is charged in the Wardrobe Accounts of Henry IV.
The characteristic sweet taste of liquorice is also reflected in the Indian names. In Sanskrit, madhu [मधु] means sweet, pleasant.
Abrus precatorius (Buddhist rosary bead, Rosary pea vine, Carolina muida, Deadly crab's eye, Lucky bean, Prayer beads, Weather plant, Wild liquorice, Family: Faboideae / Leguminosae / Papilionaceae) ...
Curry plant, licorice plant, liquorice plant (Helichrysum angustifolium, Helichrysum italicum, Helichrysum petiolatum)
Cut-leaf philodendron, ceriman, Mexican bread fruit (Monstera deliciosa, Philodendron pertusum)
Cymbidium (Cymbidium species) ...
Indian Liquorice [English]: Abrus precatorius
Indian Liquorice [English]: Abrus precatorius precatorius
Indian Long Pepper [English]: Piper longum
Indian Lotus [English]: Nelumbo nucifera
Indian Love Apple [English]: Solanum capsicoides ...
It is a berry about 2 cm in diameter, and has a mild sweet liquorice flavor. Only the fully ripe fruits should be eaten, unripe berries could be poisonous. As a food, dried wolfberries are traditionally cooked before consumption.
Rest Harrow (Ononis) - Hardy plants of the Pea family, of which the wild Liquorice (O. arvensis) is one of the prettiest of our wild plants, and is worthy of cultivation on banks and in the rough rock garden, ...
Liquorice Plant
Italian Bellflower - Campanula isophylla
Ivy - Hedera helix Ivy
Geranium - Pelargonium peltatum
Lobelia - Lobelia erinus
Pansy
Viola
Pendulous Begonia
Sweet Alyssum - Alyssum maritimum
Wax Begonia - Begonia semperflorens ...
Rosary pea, crab's eye, jequerite, precatory bean, weesboontje, paternoster bean, deadly crab's eye, wild liquorice, ruti, jequirity bean, coral bean, prayerbead, Ma Liao Tou, Tento Muido, Indian liquorice, Gunja.
Family
Fabaceae / Leguminosae.
Elecampane tea is obtained by mixing common mallow root with liquorice. After that, 2 spoons of the mixture are put in a cup of cold water. It is then left for 8 hours, after which it is filtered and sweetened.
^arq ss (Marruecos), Cultivated licorice (ingls), Errekalitz (vasco), Fabaceae (familia), Glycyrrhiza uralensis (similar), Gotxerro (vasco), Kan-ts'ao (chino), Kuo-lao (chino), Lakritz (alemn), Licorice (ingls), Ling-t'ung (chino), Liquorice ...
Since it is not appreciably absorbed by the body, it is used orally in the treatment of various enteric infections, especially bacterial dysentery[218]. It should not be used with Glycyrrhiza species (Liquorice) because this nullifies the effects of ...
nudicaulis, from the Latin nudus, "bare, naked", and the Greek, kaulos (kaulos), "stem"; hence "bare stem"
Sarsaparilla, from ?
Other common names include Aralia, False Sarsaparilla, Wild Sarsaparilla, Shot Bush, Small Spikenard, Wild Liquorice, ...
Lemon verbena (Lippia citriodora)
Lesser calamint (Calamintha nepeta), nipitella, nepitella (Italy)
Licorice, liquorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra)
Lime flower, linden flower (Tilia spp.)
Lovage (Levisticum officinale) ...
Whorled Solomon's Seal, Whorled Water Milfoil, Whortle-leaved Willow, Wild Asparagus, Wild Azalea, Wild Basil, Wild Cabbage, Wild Candytuft, Wild Carrot, Wild Celery, Wild Cherry or Gean, Wild Clary, Wild Cotoneaster, Wild Daffodil, Wild Liquorice, ...
The substances used to adulterate opium are grape-juice thickened with flour, fig-paste, liquorice, half-dried apricots, inferior gum tragacanth and sometimes clay or pieces of lead or other metals.
 See also: Medic, May, Green, India, Licorice
  
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