甘草有密草、美草蕗草等很多芳名。属多年生豆科草本植物,它对自然环境要求不严格,有独特的抗旱、耐寒、喜热、不怕盐碱的适应性。它是荒漠地带的优良植被,是水土保持,防风固沙,发展畜牧业,维护生态的一种优佳植物。同时它又是重要的药物资源,在本草纲目中说它的根茎:“主治五脏六腑寒热邢气,坚筋骨、长肌肉、倍力气、解毒、久服轻身延年。”在中药处方有十方九草之说,它号称“九土之精,安和七十二种石,一千二百种草”,起到调节作用。现在甘草的用途与日俱增,目前全世界广泛应用于医药、食品、化工、纺织等广 Licorice has a dense grass, grass and many other names. Is a perennial leguminous herb, its requirements on the natural environment is not strict, unique drought, cold, heat, not afraid of the adaptability of saline. It is an excellent vegetation in the desert zone, and it is an excellent plant for soil and water conservation, windbreak and sand fixation, animal husbandry development and ecological protection. At the same time it is an important drug resources, said its roots in the Compendium of Materia Medica: “attending the internal organs cold and heat Xing Qi, strong bones and muscles, long muscles, times the strength, detoxification, Jiufu light body Yannian.” Prescription in Chinese medicine has ten Nine grass said that it claims to be “nine fine soil, security and seventy-two kinds of stone, one thousand two hundred kinds of grass”, play a regulatory role. Now the use of licorice growing, the world is widely used in medicine, food, chemicals, textile and other widely