Herb – Liquorice
Liquorice – Sweet Root
Liquorice, a herbaceous perennial has been cultivated for its sweet aromatic root since the Middle ages. Arab physicians used it as a laxative, and for treating stomach ulcers and bladder and kidney complaints. It has also been used as an infusion given for sore throats and to reduce fever. Today it is a popular sweetener flavoring for confectionery, beers and tobacco. Can you believe the waste fibers, after having the flavor extracted from them, are used to make wallboard?
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Parts Used
The roots from 3 to 4 year old plants are dug up in the autumn or spring, peeled and dried. Liquorice juice may be extracted from the fresh roots. The crusaders who came back home to England from the east, during the Middle Ages, brought back the liquorice plant and knowledge of how to use its extracts. A certain monastery in Pontefract, England began using the extract and turned it into liquorice candy and it became well-known throughout the country.
I have loved the taste of liquorice all of my life, well almost. When I was pregnant with my first child I overate on liquorice candy and was unable to eat any Liquorice Allsorts for years. Thankfully the nauseous feeling has finally left and I can again indulge my sweet tooth.
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Liquorice has always been my favorite candy. I didn’t know that the waste fibers are used for wallboard. How inventive is that!
My husband loves the liquorice candy that the black pipes are made of. Do you remember those pipes, they had red ashes as though the pipe was lit?
Chinese medicine uses liquorice in half of their formulas because they say it enhances the effect of all the other ingredients making it stronger in it’s healing action.
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