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Licorice root extract is used in alternative medicine as a laxative, a diuretic and an anti-inflammatory agent. It is also used to treat gastric ulcers, respiratory problems such as asthma and bronchitis and skin conditions such as eczema and canker sores.
Dried liquorice root can be chewed as a sweet. Black liquorice contains about 100 calories per ounce (15 kJ/g). Liquorice is used by brewers to flavour and colour porter classes of beers, and the enzymes in the root also stabilize the foam heads produced by beers brewed with it.he word liquorice is derived (via the Old French licoresse) from the Greek Î³Î»ÏÎºÏÏÏÎ¹Î¶Î± (glukurrhiza), meaning sweet root, from Î³Î»ÏÎºÏÏ (glukus), sweet + á¿¥Î¯Î¶Î± (rhiza), root, the name provided by Dioscorides.