---
title: "Long Gu"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/534/long-gu"
---

 ![long gu, fossilia ossis mastodi.jpg](/u/long-gu-fossilia-ossis-mastodi-bwf7Cl.jpg) 

# Long Gu

### Fossilia Ossis Mastodi

_sweet, astringent, neutral_

#### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Calm the Spirit**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Shen disorders
 - Mood swings
 - Restlessness
 - Insomnia
 - Palpitations
 - Anxiety
- Seizures
- Irascibility
- Dizziness
- Vertigo
- Blurry vision
- Spermatorrhea
- Night sweats
- Spontaneous sweating
- Nocturnal emissions
- Vaginal discharge
- Uterine bleeding
- Ulcerations
- Sores

Long Gu enters the liver, heart, and kidney systems. It is sweet,
astringent, and neutral. Its effect on the liver treats restlessness,
irritability, and dizziness.

Long Gu also has astringent properties that reduce kidney related
decline manifesting as conditions such as spermatorrhea, night
sweat, nocturnal emissions, and vaginal discharge.
It can also be used topically for sores and ulcerations.

**Channels:** liver, heart, kidney

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Dysenteric disorders
- Hypertension
- Headache
- Vision decline
- Muscle spasms
- Nose bleed
- Insomnia
- Spermatorrhea
- Seizures
- Frequent urination
- Leukorrhea

**Formulas:**
- An Chong Tang
- An Shen Ding Zhi Wan
- Chai Hu Jia Long Gu Mu Li Tang
- Gu Chong Tang
- Gui Zhi Jia Long Gu Mu Li Tang
- Jian Ling Tang
- San Piao Xiao San
- Zhen Gan Xi Feng Tang

**Contraindications:** do not prescribe Long Gu to patients that
have damp heat due to its astringent property, do not prescribe
to patients with external excess patterns

**Zoo Image:** an elephant with an infected earing and red hat that is leaking
fluids from his trunk is riding a motorcycle with a spirit, a yang anchor is
dragging behind, the elephant says “I’m NORMAL, Dude”

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