Licorice preparations improve efficiency of chemotherapy and surgical treatment of transplanted tumors.

Experiments on animals with Lewis lung carcinoma and Ehrlich tumor showed that licorice (glycyrrhiza) extract and glyciram prepared from this plant improved the antitumor effect of cyclophosphamide. Glyciram reduced the toxic effect of the cytostatic on peripheral blood leukocytes. Licorice extract inhibited the growth of Ehrlich tumor and development of metastases in mice with Lewis lung carcinoma. Glyciram administered to mice after removal of Lewis lung carcinoma produced an antimetastatic effect and prevented relapses.

[Correction of respiratory organ impairment with Ural licorice preparations in chronic skin diseases]. / Korrektsiia sostoianiia organov dykhaniia preparatom solodki Ural'skoi pri khornicheskikh zabolevaniiakh kozhi.

AIM: To study alterations in lipid peroxidation, antioxidant status of the lungs and immune state of the organism in some chronic diseases of the skin and potentialities of their correction with preparation produced of Ural licorice root. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Lipid peroxidation, antioxidant system parameters were examined in condensates of the expired air of 54 healthy subjects and 60 patients with chronic skin diseases. Immune status was studied in blood samples. The patients were given the drug made of Ural licorice root. RESULTS: The licorice-based drug normalized antioxidant defense and immune status. CONCLUSION: It was found possible to correct pulmonary and immune statuses of patients with some chronic skin diseases in polluted environment with a licorice drug.