Licorice sweets - spicy, with anise flavor, are both a treat and a medicine. Licorice lozenges really like children. Tasty sweets relieve sore throat, relieve cough, and promote sputum excretion.
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The history of licorice sweets
Liquorice or licorice is a medicinal plant. Its healing properties have been known since the time of Tutankhamun. Alexander the Great and his warriors in the 300s BC quenched thirst in campaigns with licorice roots. Ancient Greek and Roman doctors used licorice root as a cure for colds, colds and catarrh.
In 1760, English pharmacist George Dunhill added sugar and other ingredients to the licorice root extract. Since then, sweet medicine from licorice began to be made in many countries of Europe and America. In addition to the fact that there is a lot of licorice in nature, they still began to grow it on lands specially designated for it.
In the UK, licorice sweets are preferred to sweets, in the countries of Scandinavia and Holland they are made salty, black, in the shape of a cat or fish. In Finland, Denmark, such sweets are very common, they are considered a national delicacy. The largest producer of licorice is Spain, although the plant grows wild in the forest-steppe zone from the Mediterranean to Altai.