[AbiDrew85]

Just a note in case you didn't know: Lic root is something that is supposedly taken for 6 weeks then you must break for at least 3 weeks as it is not a tonic herb. But it sounds like you are only doing it short term anyway.

Good Luck!

Thanks!

Licorice is interesting... It's main danger is in pseudohyperaldosteronism because it blocks corticosteroids from being further reduced along each branch, causing a deficit in actual aldosterone and an increased binding of corticosteroids to aldosterone receptors, which actually overstimulate the receptors... Fun stuff.

You actually CAN take moderately high-dose licorice long term as long as you ALSO include things to combat the PHA. Which I had been doing.

I've already quit the licorice, though. And all the stuff I was taking to combat the induced PHA it caused.

Chinese skullcap is much safer. It also blocks the reduction of corticosteroids, but it's negligible, and there's been no evidence that without additional blockers to that pathway that it can cause the same degree of harm. In fact, all studies of chinese skullcap by itself indicate it's impossible to reach toxicity. So my main concern of an "overdose" of this herb is that I end up blocking toooo much T between it and SP. I want female range. Too much lower than that and I'm running risks for testosterone deficiency.