Studio : Hawaii Pharm LLC Publisher : Hawaii Pharm LLC Binding : Health and Beauty Product Description The distinctive flavor and sweetness of licorice comes from the glycyrrhizin that composes up to 25% of the root?s makeup. The root itself is hard and fibrous, and is thus typically used for food only as a liquid flavor infusion. In fact, many licorice flavored candies include no real licorice, and are instead flavored with similarly flavored spices such as anise and fennel. Licorice contains: glycyrrhizin, complex immune-stimulant sugars. Ginger (Zingiber officinalis) is the most widely used and available herbal remedy on the planet, with billions of people using it every day as both food and medicine. A tropical perennial growing to a height of two feet, ginger has lance-shaped leaves and bears stalks of white or yellow flowers. Ginseng is any one of eleven species of slow-growing perennial plants with fleshy roots. It is native to cool and shady hardwood forests from Quebec to Minnesota, south to Georgia and Oklahoma. Panax ginseng has been harvested for many years and is now quite rare. Red ginseng derives its name from the color that it takes on during a special preservation method that involves being steamed (and then sometimes sun dried) with the peel intact. During the drying process the root is steeped in a bath of an ancient, and often protected herbal recipe, which includes a combination of honey or wine and this process causes the root to become brittle in texture. Red ginseng usually always comes from China or Korea, and it is considered slightly stronger and more stimulating than white ginseng. 0
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