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Christopher Green wrote:
2. Licorice

Also GRAS. Good for you in small quantities. Larger quantities of
glycyrrhizin, the active principle, have been known to cause edema and
are moderately estrogenic.

It also causes and exacerbates hypertension in large quantities or taken
regularly. For this reason, "licorice" candy is now made with aniseed
instead. The mechanism is by inhibiting an enzyme in the corticosteroid
system, causing the kidney to retain water and sodium, and excrete potassium.

Not only can licorice precipitate strokes and other hypertension related
effects, but the associated hypokalemia can cause heart arrythmias and
other EKG changes in otherwise healthy people, as well as muscle weakness,
increased thirst and increased urination.

There are many reports of "treatment-resistant" hypertension caused by
consumption of large quantities of old style licorice candy, licorice tea
or herbal remedies containing a lot of licorice root taken regularly.

But a "thin, watery drink" of this stuff would meet just about none of
the nutritional needs of anybody. Overall, this sounds like a Really
Bad Idea. What sources have led you to believe that a diet of this
would be good for you?

The original poster said:
I was thinking of making a thin watery drink with the following whole
ingredients [raw, natural, organic, un-processed, solid, all products
whole and not juiced] with my VitaMix blender:

The irrational belief that nature is benign and plants are there for human
benefit, while technology is evil, and its products are designed to make
money at the expense of the environment and human health has become so
widespread as to be the unconscious basis of thought and decision making
about health for many people. There's a *lot* of money to be made pandering
to this mindset, and key words like raw, natural, organic, unprocessed, whole,
etc. are a characteristic part. People are afraid of "drugs", but "herbs"
are "natural", untouched by evil "processing" and therefore intrinsically
good, provided by kindly Mother Nature to heal all our ills, unlike the
doctors and pharmaceutical companies that just want to profit from our
suffering.

I could go on for pages about the problems with these beliefs, but I won't.
They are part of a powerful trend toward magical thinking and rejection of
science and rational thought which has been building up for decades in the
US, and has profound effects on that country, its citizens and the world it
dominates.

At least the poster didn't include natural herbs like tobacco, potato leaves,
foxglove and oleander in his proposed brew, nor wish to add natural minerals
like lead, cadmium, mercury, antimony and arsenic.