!!!"#$%" &’&(’%&( ) *%!+ ,-& ( &’./ ,&%& &( 0,)1211 113 , 24,056 5)104 ,7 !"# !$ 6" 8.(9( 5&(#.( : .-(&+ (&(% 6 )%/( 3 +(9 ( 4 ! "#"$ % & ! ’! ! "#"$ % $ ! "#"$ % " ! "#"$ % ( ’!) anaghakorhalkar13@gmail.com ; Phone: + 91 9823289223; Fax: 020 24379163 Received: 27/10/2012; Revised: 06/12/2012; Accepted: 10/12/2012 5;4504 The knowledge of traditional medicine especially that of herbs and plants, inherited from ancestors is very useful. They are effective and more valuable than the synthetic pharmacological agents. * Linn or Licorice is one of the most widely used medicinal herbs and is found in numerous traditional formulas. It has been used in medicine for more than 4000 years. The earliest record of its use in medicine is found in code Humnubari (2100 BC). It was also one of the important plants mentioned in Assyrian herbal documents (2000 BC). Hippocrates (400 BC) mentioned its use as a remedy of ulcers and quenching of thirsts. The drug was also mentioned by Theophrastus and Dioscorides. In traditional Siddha system of medicine licorice is used as a demulcent, expectorant, antitussive, laxative and sweetener. Historically, the dried rhizome and root of this plant were employed medicinally by the Egyptian, Chinese, Greek, Indian, and Roman civilizations as an expectorant and carminative. 81< 3,= Licorice. History, * +! 4 0%’ ’.% (’%= 8.(9( 5 .-(&+ 6 ) +(9 >? 0,)1211 113 , 24,056 5)104 ,7 !"# !$ 6" >?