Glycyrrhiza uralensis boiling the water left, so the students administered them to the patients and told them that it was their teacher’s medicine. Magically, the patients who were suffering from spleen and stomach problems, coughing phlegm, or with sore throats and ulcers were cured from this medicine. These dried grasses were liquorice roots. Since then, liquorice roots have been widely used in Chinese medicine and healing. Liquorice root contains glycyrrhizin, which can cause high blood pressure, salt and water retention, and low potassium levels; it could also lead to heart problems. Patients who take liquorice with diuretics or medicines that reduce the
Pontefract Friary Pontefract Friary St Richard's Friary, also known as Pontefract Friary, was a Dominican friary in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. It was located near today's Pontefract General Infirmary, on the eastern edge of Friarwood Valley Gardens. It was founded in 1256 on land donated by Edmund de Lacy in honour of Richard de Wych, Bishop of Chichester on 6 acres of land at the edge of the town. The town centre was by then already too densely built to offer a sufficiently big building site. Since the Dominicans, also known as Black Friars, were a mendicant order without property, land, building