Low blood pressure! Any good advize??

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

When I was a teen I had low blood pressure. My mom used to tell me to eat black licorice. Not the soft kind but the hard kind, the purest you can find. I always used to think that was an old wives tale remedy but it used to work. Also, after doing some research, I found it to be true.

From Wikipedia:

Health effects
Main article: Liquorice#Medicinal use
The liquorice-root extract contains the natural sweetener glycyrrhizin, which is over 50 times sweeter than sucrose. This ingredient has various pharmaceutical properties, the most important ones being that it acts as an expectorant (facilitating removal of mucus from the lungs by coughing) and that it increases blood pressure. The latter effect can become significant with a daily consumption of 50 g or more of liquorice candy for as little as two weeks.[3] Liquorice is also a mild laxative, and has several varied uses in herbal medicine.

Are you talking about the salted liquorice? That is indeed very good, because there's a lot of salt in it! But because of the "laxative" working of liquorice, I'd better NOT eat it, because it always gives me diarrhoea..

[beeniesmom]

Oh no, not the salted kind.

It's just pure licorice. No sugar, salt or gummy stuff.

The pure candy licorice is very strong and like a hard candy. Little pellets.

The first product is what I mean.
http://www.licoriceinternational.com...alian+Licorice

[jennielynn1970]

Oooh... salt licorice!!! OMG! I remember having that when I was in Sweden. It took some getting used to, but by the end of my stay there, I was addicted to it. My one librarian friend who traveled used to bring me back salt licorice and double salt licorice when she traveled to Europe.

She retired and moved away. I miss the licorice.

We can't get it here at all. Not that I've found, anyway.