How to cure diseases with precious medicine from longan fruit

Longan when eaten without the skin and seeds, will bring a sweet, cool feeling, but if processed, longan will become delicious dishes, a valuable medicine for the user's health.

Longan tea is refreshing and nutritious. Illustration photo

Longan has many health benefits.

Longan tree has the scientific name Dimocarpus longan Lour. (Euphoria longan (Lour.) Steud.), belongs to the soapberry family - Sapidaceae. Longan originated in India and is widely grown in many countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Laos... and the southern provinces of China.

In Vietnam, when longan was introduced, it was crossbred by the hands and minds of Vietnamese people and developed into many different varieties of longan, including Hung Yen longan, Khoai Chau longan; longan with tamarind skin, yellow or white fruit, large seeds, thin flesh, lots of water and very sweet; longan with cowhide skin has cowhide-colored skin, small seeds, sweet flesh, slightly dry...

According to Vietnamese oriental medicine, both the pulp and the seeds of the longan fruit have medicinal properties. The pulp and seeds are dried to create a medicinal product called longan pulp, cinnamon pills or whole pulp.

According to nutrition experts, fresh longan pulp contains up to 77.15% water, 0.13% fat, 1.47% protein, 20.53% water-soluble nitrogen compounds, 12.25% sucrose, vitamins A and B.

In dried longan pulp, there is 0.85% water, 79.77% water-soluble substances (containing 26.9% glucose, 0.22% sucrose, 1.2% tartaric acid, nitrogenous substances), and 19.3% water-insoluble substances.

According to the book Nam Duoc Than Hieu by "divine doctor" Tue Tinh, longan medicine has a sweet taste, warm, neutral properties, is non-toxic, and has the effect of increasing memory, eliminating tuberculosis, nourishing the heart and spleen, and increasing longevity.

According to Hai Thuong Lan Ong Le Huu Trac: “Longan is called beneficial to intelligence in the book Shen Nong's Herbal, sweet in taste, neutral in nature, non-toxic, enters the meridians of Foot Tai Yin (spleen) and Hand Shao Yin (heart)… Drinking a lot will make you strong-willed and intelligent; using it for a long time will make you feel light and young for a long time… Diarrhea and fullness in the upper abdomen are all prohibited.”

Longan seeds contain starch, saponin, fat and tannin, and are used externally to treat impetigo and bleeding from cuts by peeling off the black shell, drying it, and grinding it into a fine powder to sprinkle on the wound. Some people also use boiled longan leaves to drink to treat fever caused by colds (10-15g/day).

You should only use 8-20g of longan pulp per day, used alone or combined with other foods such as 20-30g of lotus seeds, 15-20g of coix seeds, 20-30g of jujubes, to cook sweet soup or porridge, which has the effect of nourishing, supporting the heart, and calming the nerves.

Precious medicine from longan fruit

+ Cure insomnia, anxiety, forgetfulness: Ingredients include 100gr longan pulp and 100gr good quality sticky rice. How to prepare: cook porridge, season to taste and eat.

+ Treating physical weakness and anemia: Ingredients include 15gr longan, 20gr lotus seeds, 15gr jujube, 15gr peanuts and 50gr good quality sticky rice. How to prepare: Use the above ingredients to cook porridge, season to taste. Should be used every morning and evening.

Precious medicine from longan fruit according to folk experience. Illustration photo

+ Cure weak heart and kidney: Ingredients include 250gr longan and half a liter of good wine. How to prepare: soak longan in wine for about two weeks and it can be used. Every night before going to bed, drink a small glass.

+ Treat diarrhea due to spleen deficiency: Ingredients include 30 longan fruits (dried) and a sufficient amount of fresh ginger. Preparation: Use the two ingredients above to boil water to drink during the day.

+ Treating nervous breakdown: Ingredients include longan and the herb "kieu thiet" (20gr each). Preparation: boil the two ingredients above with enough water to use before going to bed.

+ Cure edema after giving birth: Ingredients include longan, Chinese dates, fresh ginger and two herbs Poria cocos and rice seed (10gr each). Preparation: put all ingredients together with enough water to boil and drink.

+ Treat bleeding due to injury: Use finely ground dried longan seeds and apply to the wound.

+ Treat burns: Take the dried peel of longan fruit, grind it into powder and mix with sesame oil to apply on the burn.

+ Common tumor treatment: Ingredients include 10-25 grams of longan pulp, 1-1.5 grams of green tea. Preparation: Steam longan, put in a large cup with green tea, pour 100 ml of boiling water. Has a supportive treatment effect for tumors. Use 1 dose per day, divided into 3 times, drink while the water is still warm.

+ Treat diarrhea due to spleen deficiency: 30 dried longan fruits with 3-5 slices of fresh ginger. Use both ingredients to boil water to drink during the day.

+ Longan and lotus seed soup: 15g longan, 15g lotus seeds, 10g red dates, enough rock sugar, add water and boil until soft, scoop and eat.

+ Longan and apple seed soup: 10g longan, 10g sour apple seed, 12g Chinese clematis, crush Chinese clematis, then add longan and sour apple seed, boil and eat.

+ Longan ginseng honey extract: 120g longan, 250g codonopsis pilosula, 125g Chinese clematis root, enough honey. Grind codonopsis pilosula and Chinese clematis root into powder. Add water to longan and boil for 2 hours, then add honey and boil, then add the powder to get longan ginseng honey extract, eat one spoon a day.

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