Products Expectorants are commercially available in the form of cough syrups, drops, tablets, powders, granules, pastilles, and lozenges, among others. Structure and properties Natural (herbal), semisynthetic, and synthetic agents are used. Effects Expectorants liquefy and loosen tough mucus in the respiratory tract and promote expectoration. Mucolytic: liquefy bronchial mucus. Secretolytic: promotes production of a thin … Expectorant
To the snail rolled up strings, coated sticks or pastille-shaped hard liquorice: No matter in which form – characteristic for liquorice is the black color, for which the juice of the liquorice shrub is responsible (which, however, is artificially helped today). That licorice also has medicinal effects is less known. Production of licorice For the … Licorice Health Facts
No one knows exactly when and how the “brown gold” reached Europe and how it became a prized snack. In any case, in Pontefract, a fortified town in northern England, licorice root was cultivated as early as the 15th century – perhaps Dominican monks brought the shrub with them from the Mediterranean. The shrubs did … Licorice as Candy
