Berberine abd Liquorice

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Brilliiant! I remember now - one of those bits of knowledge that gets

tucked away and forgotten about, wonder if that's why I haven't been

using licirice for my skin patients -

However - my first thought was to wonder if either of the whole herbs

might actually contain something that might inhibit the reaction (rather

like Filipendula not actually causing stomach ulcers).... And.a quick

google search reveals that this reaction is in fact substantially

inhibited by cyclodextrin, a common laboratory reagent...........

Now...... I'm not a chemist, but dextrin sounds sweet to me, and it is

apparently easily obtained in the lab from starch..... licorice is a

very sweet herb...... I'm wondering if there are any other constituents

of licorice that might also have this effect.

So, as I don't have easy access to a lab to test this out....... unless

anybody can help me on this, I am going to revert to plan B which is to

search the historic records for any reputedly successful combinations

including both, and to ask this;

Are there any of you lovely lot out there who have successfully combined

the two?????.

I love a mystery!, just call me Miss Marple.

I'm off for my supper, will investigate further anon......

I do seem to remember seeing a bit of research combining mahonia and

glych in an effective skin cream.... will hunt this out .

very best wishes

Sally Owen MNIMH

Ania Cannon wrote:

> To add to my previous (perhaps oversimplified) posting, glycyrrhizin will also

cause precipitation of berberine, as we were taught early on in our course at

the School of Phytotherapy.

> It is impossible now to remember who taught us this, or the source/reference

(if it was given at all), but it was obviously part of the approved information,

as carried in the body of the course curriculum. I am indebted to Krystyna

Krzyzak for jogging my memory on this.

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