---
title: "Long Yan Rou"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/535/long-yan-rou"
---

 ![long yan rou, longan arillus.jpg](/u/long-yan-rou-longan-arillus-RueTkb.jpg) 

# Long Yan Rou

### Longan Arillus

_sweet, warm_

#### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Tonify Blood**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Insomnia
- Heart palpitations
- Poor memory
- Dizziness

Long Yan Rou is sweet and warm. It enters the heart and spleen
systems to tonify. Its effect on the heart system can treat
palpitations and insomnia disorders while the spleen function
treats disorders related to over thinking such as poor memory.

**Channels:** heart, spleen

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Dizziness
- Antimicrobial
- Sleep disorders
- Fatigue

**Formulas:**
- Dang Gui Ji Xue Teng Tang
- Gui Pi Tang

**Contraindications:** do not prescribe Long Yan Rou to
patients that present with severe heat patterns due to
obstruction

**Zoo Image:** a bat student from NSU (No Spleen University) with a question
mark circling its head and a bumping heart can’t remember its herb notes, a
spirit hands it a pillow

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