MAPK14 and neoplasm: In terms of the targets interacted with licorice, we observed that most of which were related to cell cycle, immune, inflammation, cancer and neoplasm metastasis with higher scores,  specifically,  such as CDK2, ESR1, PPARG, ESRRA, PRKACA, CXCL8, PLAA, RXRB, MAPK14 and so on (shown in Fig. 2a).