WH Acupuncture & Herbs Centre

This medicinal is the aril of Euphooria longan Lour. (Family Sapindaceae). It is exavated in spring and autumn when the fruit is getting ripe,dried by baking or natural sunlight. After removal of the fruit skin and kernel, the aril is taken out, dried till not sticky and preserved for use.

[ Medicinal Properties ]: Sweet and warm; relate to heart and spleen meridians.

[ Medicinal Efficacies ]: Tonify the heart and spleen; nourish blood and induce tranquilization.

[ Clinical Applications ]: Palpations,fearful throbbing, insomnia and amnesia, hemafecia, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis.

For palpations, fearfu lthrobbing ,insomnia , amnesia, anorexia and lassitude, due to excessive anxiety damaging the heart and spleen, hemafecia, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, due to spleen qi deficiency, it is prescribed with Renshen, Danggui and Suanzaoren, as in the Guipi Decoction. For deficiency of qi and blood, it is used by itself and braized with white sugar for oral administration with boiled water, as in the Yuling Concentrated Decoction.

[ Usage and Dosage]: 10-25g,or 30-60g in large dosage.

[ Precautions ]: It is congtraindicated in patients with excess dampness with Abdominal fullness, or retained fluid, phlegm and fire.                                                                                                                          x

龙眼肉为无患子科植物龙眼树Ｅuphoria longan(Lour.)Steud．的假种皮。主产于广东、福建、台湾、广西等地。于夏秋果实成熟时采摘，烘干或晒干，除去壳、核，晒至干爽不粘，贮存备用。