How to understand licorice, ginseng and chrysanthemum

Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch. [1], (scientific name: Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch.) alias: Lao Guo, Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch., a perennial herb in Leguminosae and Glycyrrhiza genus, with stout roots and rhizomes, is a nourishing Chinese herbal medicine. A very good medicine for human body, the medicinal parts are roots and rhizomes. The medicinal root is cylindrical, with a length of 25 ~ 100 cm and a diameter of 0.6 ~ 3.5 cm. The skin is elastic and the surface is reddish brown or grayish brown. The rhizome is cylindrical, with bud marks on the surface and pith in the middle of the section. Slight breath, sweet, special taste. Functions: clearing away heat and toxic materials, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, abdominal distension, etc. I like a dry climate with dark and humid, long sunshine and low temperature. Glycyrrhiza uralensis mostly grows in arid and semi-arid desert grassland, desert edge and loess hilly area. Roots and rhizomes are used in medicine.

Ginseng (Panax ginseng C. A. Mey) is a perennial herb, which likes to grow in the shade, and its leaves have no stomata and palisade tissue, so it can't retain water. When the temperature is higher than 32 degrees, the leaves will burn with a canopy density of 0.7-0.8. It usually blooms in 3 years and bears fruit in 5-6 years. The flowering period is from May to June, and the fruiting period is from June to September. It grows at an altitude of 33-48 degrees north latitude, mainly under mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests or deciduous broad-leaved forests, and is found in northeast China, North Korea, South Korea, Japan and eastern Russia. Ginseng is another name for Huangshen, Goblin, Shencao and Baicao, and it is one of the famous "Three Treasures in Northeast China".