Licorice Root for Kidney Health

Research suggests that the available studies linked here do not directly investigate licorice root and kidney health — instead, the three sources focus on COVID-19-related topics, including a scoping review of alternative medicine systems proposed during the early pandemic, a computational modeling study on spike protein binding, and a simulation-based investigation of a viral protein's potential role in amyloid formation. None of these studies examine licorice root's effects on kidney function, kidney disease, or renal outcomes in any meaningful way. The study types represented are a systematic scoping review and two computational modeling studies, none of which constitute clinical trials or direct evidence for the use of licorice root in kidney health contexts. As a result, no conclusions about licorice root and kidney health can be drawn from this particular set of sources, and readers seeking evidence on that topic would need to consult research specifically designed to address it.