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• Liquorice is a medicinal herb which has been
internationally used as a remedy.

• The two principal active secondary metabolites in
liquorice roots are:

• 1- glycyrrhizin, sweet principles, K+ and Ca++ salts
of glycyrrhizic acid (GA) .
glycyrrhizic acid is the diglucouronic acid of
glycyrrhetic acid with a triterpenoidal structure.

• 2- liquiritin (LQ) .(flavonoids)

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