Licorice plants grow in the wild from Eastern Asia, through the Middle East, and all the way to the Mediterranean region of Southern Europe and Northern Africa. Licorice root is among the most widely used herbs in the Chinese, Japanese Kampo, Indian Ayurvedic, Unani, and European systems of Traditional Herbal Medicine (THM). There are a range of traditional uses for licorice root tea stemming from several of the world’s systems of THM.