Longan is a familiar fruit, and longan meat is one of the most important blood tonics often used in clinical practice. Longan meat refers to the fresh longan baked into dried fruit, also known as “cinnamon”, and cinnamon because of its seed round black luster, the seed navel protrudes white, looks like the legendary “dragon” eyes, so named. And there is another legendary story about the name of cinnamon and longan. The legend of longan and cinnamon According to legend, a long time ago, there was a village by the sea, there was a bold and handsome young man named Gui Yuan. He lost his father when he was young and lived alone by going to sea to fish. There is an evil dragon in the sea, every mid-autumn festival day, will come out to hurt people. The villagers hate it very much and are determined to get rid of this scourge. One day, Gui Yuan and the villagers finally came up with a brilliant plan, dug a deep trap in the sea. Waiting for the Mid-Autumn Festival day, they put a lot of the shore with strong wine soaked through the pork. Not much time, the dragon really appeared, only to see it more than a thousand feet long, electric eyes, blood tongue, vermilion scales, fire beard, teeth and claws, a face of fierce and evil, very scary! The dragon swaggered to the shore, thinking that the villagers learned a good lesson, with pork to “honor” it. Did not think much of swallowing pork. Soon after the onset of alcohol, the dragon lay on the beach and did not move. Repressed for a long time the villagers have used the knife angrily cut to the dragon. The dragon woke up in pain, madly pounced on the villagers. Gui Yuan, quick-witted, stepped forward and used a steel fork to blind the dragon’s right eye in one go. The dragon was in pain and fled. Gui Yuan pounced on, straddling the dragon’s neck, with all the strength of a dagger and gouged down the left eye of the dragon. The dragon had never eaten such a big loss, immediately tighten the hoop Gui Yuan, crazy like revenge. A dragon and a person on the beach repeatedly rolled and wrestled, only to hear a “thud”, the last two all fell into the trap. When everyone rescued Gui Yuan, he had closed his eyes forever, but his hands still clutching a pair of dragon eyes. The villagers buried Gui Yuan in tears, and buried the pair of longan in Gui Yuan’s side. Later, a tree grew in the place where the longan was buried and soon produced sweet fruit, which the villagers called longan. Later, in order to commemorate the hero Gui Yuan, people called the longan “Gui Yuan”. Origin and efficacy of longan Origin: The aril of longan, a plant of the family Sapotaceae. Origin: Produced in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Fujian, Taiwan and other provinces. It is also cultivated in Indochina and other places. Taste: Sweet, warm; belongs to the heart and spleen meridians. Effects: Tonifies the heart and spleen, nourishes the heart and calms the mind. Note for use 1. Not to be taken by those who are full of dampness or have stopped drinking, phlegm or fire. 2, pregnant women, especially in early pregnancy, should not take longan meat to prevent fetal movement and premature delivery. 3, diabetic patients should not take more. 4, do not eat unripe longan, it will easily cause asthma. Longan meat taking “Compendium of Materia Medica”, Li Shizhen introduced longan meat: “food to lychee is expensive, and the capital benefit is longan for good. The lychee is hot, and the longan is calm.” Shennong Ben Cao Jing” also recorded the longan meat for a long time to take the effect of “light body not old”. Therefore, some foreign scholars and experts believe that longan meat is highly exploitable and is even considered a “precious” anti-aging product for humans in the future. The efficacy of longan meat The efficacy of longan meat is to benefit the heart and spleen, nourish the blood and calm the mind. It is mainly used for: 1, excessive thinking, strain on the heart and spleen. It can be used together with lotus seeds and gravy. 2, palpitations and palpitations, insomnia and forgetfulness. Can be used with sour date seeds and red dates. 3.Low food and body fatigue, spleen deficiency and weakness of Qi. Can be used with Gorgon fruit, Huai Shan and Atractylodes macrocephala. 4, blood in the stool and leakage. It can be used with red dates, eggs and rice with water to cook porridge. In addition, longan meat can be taken directly chewed, decoction, but also can be made into fruit soup, wine, etc.