Abstract
Author(s): Harshal Ashok Pawar
Liquorice is one of the most popular ingredients in several traditional herbal medicinal preparations, and glycyrrhizin is the major glycoside present in this plant. Licorice exhibits many important pharmacological activities such as antiviral, anticancer, antiulcer, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant etc. The present review describes the general pharmacognostic features, phytochemistry, biopotential, methods of extraction and analysis of various phytoconstituents of liquorice.
