Popularly known as Licorice, Yashtimadhu is one of the most popular herbs used across the world. It is commonly used as a sweetner in candies and bakery products, but has a great demand for supporting human body’s normal digestive functions. Apart from that it also has other health components like plant sterols, flavonoids, volatile oils, glycyrrhizic acid, coumarins, glycosides, asparagine, chalcones and anethole.
Yashtimadhu helps neutralizing high acidic toxins in the body. Its tremendous and exceptional lubricating quality also helps in binding the toxins and wash out them out of the body. Among the other medicinal properties of Yashtimadhu includes in shrinking inflammation in the body.
The stout perennial herb, even though extremely popular in India, according to many researches has been featured even in ancient Greek, Roman and Chinese systems of medicines.
