A 51 year old post-menopausal woman presents to the Emergency Department with severe headaches, hypertension, hypokalemia and metabolic alkalosis. Following a thorough history, it was found that she had been consuming a herbal tea to aid in restoring her fertility, containing various herbal extracts including glcyrrhiza glabra, a root containing glycyrrhizinic acid. We present a case of licorice-induced apparent mineralocorticoid excess causing hypokalaemia, hypertension, oedema and normal pressure hydrocephalus.