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Longan Fruit / Arillus Longan (long yan rou) 龍眼肉

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NATURE:

Warm; sweet; attributive to heart and spleen.

CHARACTERISTICS:

Soft, moist and translucent meat of a delicious fruit used as blood tonic. It had high organic iron content, about twenty times of grapes and fifteen times of spinach. It is a qi tonic, which increases physical stamina and always use with other blood tonics.

THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS:

Invigorate the heart and spleen; nourish blood and calm the mind; treat insomnia, amnesia and dizziness.

 


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