Liquorice or Licorice is actually a root. In it’s natural state it is slightly sweet but not as most of us know it to be from the candy. It comes from the Glycyrrhiza Glabra plant, found manly in Southern Europe, Asia and India.
It actually has many uses. It is used in food, medicine, beverages and even tobacco. Apparently it even works well as shampoo. It treats sore throats, bronchitis, coughing and infections, both viral and biological. It helps the digestive system, heartburn, colic and gastritis. It is used to treat prostate cancer as well as eczema. It also increases fertility.
In many Mid-Eastern countries, liquorice is served as a drink, like coffee. No one knows how first discovered liquorice but it is clear it has been around for centuries. I have alwys been curious who dug up a plant and decided to use the roots to make something, anything. In this case, they dug up a plant with roots that look like twigs. Someone had to say to themselves, I bet this tastes pretty good! At the same time, someone standing next to him, or her, said to themselves, I think I’ll try it as shampoo. Of course it is just a hop-skip and a jump to using it in medicine and tobacco. However it is nice to know that something that gives you cancer, like tobacco with liquorice in it, can be treated by the exact same product, liquorice as a cure.
Now before you think you can cure yourself by eating a hundred bags of Twizzlers I’m afraid it won’t work. Liquorice is semi-sweet as it comes out of the ground, but the real candy has Anisteed Oil added to it which tastes somewhat like liquorice but is much, much sweeter. Unfortunately, Anisteed Oil contains none of the cure as in liquorice root. April 12th is also my Father’s birthday, and he loves liquorice!
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