Guest guest Posted February 27, 2000 Report Share Posted February 27, 2000 Hi , I read your post regarding licorice root helping you reduce prednisone. I have been on Aristocord, they stopped making it in pill form so the doctor changed me to medrol. I have been trying to get off this stuff for about 2 years and I can't get down past 10mgs. I just bought some licorice root after reading your post. They are 500mgs and the bottle says to take 1 to 2 tablets 3 times daily. Could you please tell me the mgs you take and how many time a day? Did you take it with or without food? How long did you have to take it before your could lower your prednisone? Thank you for any help your can give me. Pat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 27, 2000 Report Share Posted February 27, 2000 Hello all, I have been doing some research on the licorice root as I remembered from a while back some warnings that went with it. What I found is that it can elevate blood pressure in certain individuals ( the girl in the health store also warned me of this), can cause Edema, potassium loss ( which also can be caused by prednisone) and general weakness. At 12:42 PM 2/27/00 -0500, you wrote: >From: WBurns7732@... > >Hi , > >I read your post regarding licorice root helping you reduce prednisone. I >have been on Aristocord, they stopped making it in pill form so the doctor >changed me to medrol. I have been trying to get off this stuff for about 2 >years and I can't get down past 10mgs. >I just bought some licorice root after reading your post. They are 500mgs >and the bottle says to take 1 to 2 tablets 3 times daily. Could you please >tell me the mgs you take and how many time a day? Did you take it with or >without food? How long did you have to take it before your could lower your >prednisone? > >Thank you for any help your can give me. >Pat > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Show your style! Choose from 6 great card designs when you >apply for Capital One's 9.9% Fixed APR Visa Platinum. >1/1894/0/_/532797/_/951673339/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2000 Report Share Posted April 27, 2000 Hi Pat, Sorry for the delay. I've been in the hospital and just reading your post now. I had valve replacement surgery and can't believe I have less joint pain. I was able to go down another 1mg of prednisone without even feeling it--amazing as it usually causes pain that is unbelieveable. (I'm not advocating surgery, just mentioning it). Anyway, I will need to find my bottle and get back with the strength of the licorace root--I can't find it now and don't recall off the top of my head. But I went from 10 to 9mg Prednisone using that. After surgery I cut back to 8mg. I'll try to remember, but if I forget, please email again about this if you still want info. Since surgery, my short term memory is not as good. I saw the note on side effects, I didn't verify that but just make sure you have investigated it for your comfort level. << Hi , I read your post regarding licorice root helping you reduce prednisone. I have been on Aristocord, they stopped making it in pill form so the doctor changed me to medrol. I have been trying to get off this stuff for about 2 years and I can't get down past 10mgs. I just bought some licorice root after reading your post. They are 500mgs and the bottle says to take 1 to 2 tablets 3 times daily. Could you please tell me the mgs you take and how many time a day? Did you take it with or without food? How long did you have to take it before your could lower your prednisone? Thank you for any help your can give me. Pat >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 23, 2004 Report Share Posted December 23, 2004 Licorice RootHas a soothing effect on the lungs, throat, stomach, and intestines. Used to help regulate blood sugar levels in diabetes. Has a balancing effect on both male and female hormones. As a antifungal in the treatment of Candida. Quiets irritation in the digestive system, lubricates the colon, and soothes inflammation of gastric ulcers. Helps to repair damaged gastric tissue. Antiviral with specific indications against herpes. Do not use in pregnancy or in large doses by persons with high blood pressure. It is also indicated for Lupus, Bell's Palsy, Lyme disease, Crohn's disease, Chronic Fatigue, HIV/AIDS. It offers excellent support against Hepatits B. Suzi What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. http://suziesgoats.wholefoodfarmacy.com/__________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 Yes, and her source also goes on to state - " Many times experiments and side effects come from the use of an isolated active principle of an herb and not the herb in its whole state. " Isolating just one compound in an herb outside of the whole is not a very wise way to use herbs. The other compounds that exist are there for a purpose. The abstract you reference doesn't indicate what form of licorice was use - was it an isolated or highly purified form? From my understanding the majority of these studies were done on licorice extracts or other forms like it, not on whole plant or crude preparations from the root. Also, from the abstract you linked to - " After a wide survey of the literature, the clinical and biological picture in four patients with chronic Liquorice ingestion and Pseudoaldosteronism syndrome is described. " (bolding mine) There is such a thing as getting too much of a good thing. On 3/5/08, Valarie <val@...> wrote: Because something is of allopathic source, doesn't mean it should be automatically discounted. Even your reference has a full page devoted to cautions with licorice use. " It can produce headache, lethargy, sodium and water retention, excessive loss of potassium and high blood pressure. The hazard lies in the aldosterone-like effects of licorice. This is increasing the sodium, chloride and water retention and potassium excretion by the kidneys. " -- " Gentle birth has the capacity to radically change our world. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 Lol, on the allopathic source you should ALWAYS look at it with a jaundiced eye. The medical journals and the medical schools are owned by the pharma cartel who are less then honorable when it comes to promoting their products and casting aspersions on the use of natural medicine. Less than honorable would be a mild term... They are the main source of income by way of advertising in the journals. They have a severe conflict of interest on the Center for Disease Control panel and the FDA. What they have done and are doing is worse than insidious it's criminal. Their products cause the deaths of an estimated 106,000 people each year and that is by their own medical journal JAMA april 1998. We are just now starting to see them beginning to be held accountable for the deaths and maiming they have caused in the name of profit. Yes there are some life saving medicines but it is a small part of their profits. Thanks for making that point about using isolates rather than whole herb form. I found the pub med article sketchy on those kinds of important details. There was a vitamin C article in the readers digest last november saying vitamins don't work... particularly vitamin C for shortening the duration of a cold. You are just throwing your money away was the articles gist. Come to find out the study cited used a mere 250 mg. of vitamin C a day in the study. That's like trying to use your car batter to power your house and saying electricity doesn't work. Totally absurd stuff. They did the same thing with comfrey and ephedra. Always look for the source of information in allopathic journals and ask questions. Pharmaceutical companies employ ghost writers to do write ups for them and pay real scientists to sign their names to it. Cheryl Re: licorice root Yes, and her source also goes on to state - "Many times experiments and side effects come from the use of an isolated active principle of an herb and not the herb in its whole state." Isolating just one compound in an herb outside of the whole is not a very wise way to use herbs. The other compounds that exist are there for a purpose. The abstract you reference doesn't indicate what form of licorice was use - was it an isolated or highly purified form? From my understanding the majority of these studies were done on licorice extracts or other forms like it, not on whole plant or crude preparations from the root. Also, from the abstract you linked to - "After a wide survey of the literature, the clinical and biological picture in four patients with chronic Liquorice ingestion and Pseudoaldosteronism syndrome is described." (bolding mine) There is such a thing as getting too much of a good thing. On 3/5/08, Valarie <val@...> wrote: Because something is of allopathic source, doesn't mean it should be automatically discounted. Even your reference has a full page devoted to cautions with licorice use. "It can produce headache, lethargy, sodium and water retention, excessive loss of potassium and high blood pressure. The hazard lies in the aldosterone-like effects of licorice. This is increasing the sodium, chloride and water retention and potassium excretion by the kidneys."-- "Gentle birth has the capacity to radically change our world." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 10, 2008 Report Share Posted March 10, 2008 Gracia, I am located in del, DE. Do you see a DR in DE as I am looking for a good one! Please let me know. Thank you. Sherry in DE >>> circe@... 03/08/2008 8:42 AM >>> getting the right doses of cortef, Armour and iodine makes allthe difference. I would have trouble with too little. Gracia who is in Berlin.de Original Message: ----------------- From: lynnkrt2 lynnkrt2@... Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:38:16 -0000 iodine Subject: Re: licorice root Thank you Val, I for one want to hear all sides of the story - even if it confuses me! Don't people take licorice root to try to get cortisol levels up? If so I don't think I need it since I am taking Cortef. It seems that I read somewhere that it can cause blood pressure to go up. I already had high bp when I started taking Cortef. Also started taking Lugol's. Iodine has gone up since. I don't know which one is causing the problem. Or it could be one of the other supplements I have added, but wouldn't think so. Also have increased Armour and I just ordered some celtic sea salt. Any input on this? Also all the posts about colonics and cleansing etc. Is this really necessary? Since I have started taking mag oxide, and also raised Armour, am no longer constipated. Should we really mess around with this so much? Yuck! Lynn > > Look, VoicePrints, my only intention was to alert people that there can > possibly be problems with the use of licorice. Because of that, you come > down on me with four barrels. Pubmed " licorice. " There are reports > throughout the literature about the (sometimes) serious effects of its use. > > Shouldn't everyone hear both the pros and the cons of any treatment? > > It makes me ill when people get beaten and banned because they post > something which might not fit the current dogma. Everyone on these lists > needs to understand that without adequate research, everything on these > lists is mere opinion, some better than other. > > For some on this list, licorice may be very helpful; for others, it could be > deadly. The same can be said of iodine and salt. If I swigged 1/2 t of > salt, it could likely kill me with paralysis and respiratory arrest. > > People should hear the good . and the bad. > > When full information about anything is repressed, you end up with snake > oil. > > Val > > From: iodine [mailto:iodine ] On Behalf Of > VoicePrints > > > that warning is for excessive use, but even with using it 3x's a day I have > clients add a spoonfull of molasses with it ... molasses is very high in > potassium, even more so the pills you can buy. It doesn't appear as though > you read any of the rest of the article : ) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Valarie <mailto:val@... > Because something is of allopathic source, doesn't mean it should be > automatically discounted. > Even your reference has a full page devoted to cautions with licorice use. > " It can produce headache, lethargy, sodium and water retention, excessive > loss of potassium and high blood pressure. The hazard lies in the > aldosterone-like effects of licorice. This is increasing the sodium, > chloride and water retention and potassium excretion by the kidneys. " > http://www.herballegacy.com/Knuteson_Contra.html > From: iodine [mailto:iodine ] On Behalf Of > VoicePrints > A spoonful of Licorice will offset the potassium loss which causes the other > problems mentioned in the article. The article is an allopathic source so > may have it's roots in the pharma cartel that would rather have you as a > drug customer so beware the source. Licorice is a specific adrenal food and > works for some of the very reasons listed in the article. The potassium > issue is well known among practitioners and herbalists contrary to what the > article states. Thier spelling of licorice is odd (liquorice) and when I > looked it up it was a Brittish variant of the spelling. > Here is a link to the Dr. site with allot of info on the herb. > Dr. was a renouned Master Herbalist and Naturopathic Doctor. > http://www.herballegacy.com/Knuteson_Licorice.html > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Valarie <mailto:val@... > Be very careful with licorice. > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3808407?dopt=Abstract > -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com - Microsoft® Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 1, 2011 Report Share Posted February 1, 2011 I bought my licorice root from pacific botanicals in oregon. They grow a lot of their own herbals. Should be pretty good. And I tinctured my own black walnut from my dad's tree. ap ---From: scott einhorn  Need to careful with licorice. There are two different kinds on the market. Do you understand the difference? scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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