Herbs that Tonify Qi
Zhi Gan Cao 炙甘草
Radix Glycyrrhizae Honey Fried Licorice Root
Channels All 12 Channels
Nature Warm Sweet
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Materia Medica Data
- Category
- Herbs that Tonify Qi
- Temperature
- Warm
- Nature & Flavour
- Sweet, Warm
- Channels Entered
- All 12 Channels
- Latin (pharmaceutical)
- Radix Glycyrrhizae
- Chinese
- 炙甘草
- Tone Marks
- zhì gān căo
Sources & References
Compiled and edited by Thomas Dehli, Founder & Editor, Sacred Lotus
The information here is referenced from numerous sources — teachers, practitioners, class notes from Five Branches University, the books below, and the published research literature, with citations given as resolvable PubMed identifiers. Where sources disagree, I have flagged the discrepancies directly. If facts couldn't be verified, I have left them out. How we source our content.
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