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Euphoria, Longan fruit, Long Yan Rou 龙眼肉

Longan Fruit
Long Yan Rou
(TCM)

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Euphoria longan
Transactions of the Royal Horticultural Society of London
, Vol. 2 (1822)

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Euphoria longan
(Photo by Len Worthington) (Wikimedia)

Botanical name:
Euphoria longan (syn. Dimocarpus langan)

Parts used:
Fruit (flesh of the fruit)

Temperature & Taste:
Warm, moist. Sweet

Classification:
N. Blood Tonic

Uses:
1. Nourishes the Heart, Calms the Mind and Spirit:
-Palpitations, Insomnia
-Dizziness
-Forgetfulness; Mental Fatigue, Mental deficiency
-Overwork with excess Worry; Emotional instability due to Heart deficiency

2. Nourishes Blood:
-Anemia, blood deficiency
-Blood deficiency affecting the Heart and Mind
-considered a valuable postpartum tonic for Women (Thai medicine)


DOSE:
9–15 grams in Decoction
In Thailand the juice of the fresh fruit is used and is regarded as cooling drink in the Summer heat.

COMMENT:
'long-term consumption strengthens the corporeal and the ethereal souls, sharpens the intelligence, lightens the body, prevents aging, and facilitates enlightenment of the Spirit'. (Divine Husbandman's Classic of the Materia Medica)

CORRECTIVES:
Calamus; Ginger; Cardamon

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Main Combinations:
1. Palpitations, insomnia with deficiency, with Dang Gui, Ginseng, Ziziphus Suan Zao Ren (Jujube seed) (as in Gui Pi Tang)
2. Mild Insomnia, Excitability, Restlessness, with White Lily (Bai He)
3. Forgetfulness, Dizziness, Mental Fatigue, with Calamus (Shi Chang Pu)
4. Mild cases of Blood and Qi deficiency:
i. prepare a tea with Red Dates or Sugar
ii. more severe deficiency, with American Ginseng (Xi Yang Shen) (as in Yu Ling Gao from Sui Xi Ju Yin Shi Pu [Wang Shiwei’s Sui Xi Ju Food Recipe]).
5. Postpartum Weakness, with Red dates and fresh Ginger
6. To strengthen the Spleen and Stomach and boost the Spirit, prepare a medicated wine (Long Yan Jiu (longan wine) from Wan Shi Jia Chao Fang [Wan’s Heirloom Prescriptions]).


Cautions:
1. Not used for Phlegm-Damp with Qi stagnation. Its sweet, rich nature creates dampness and causes Obstruction.
2. Not used for Stomach Heat with Phlegm; it can increase Phlegm and Heat due to its obstructing nature.

Main Preparations used:

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