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Beauty: Longan is a famous beauty herb. It adds luster and beauty to the skin.
Sleep: Promotes tranquility and has been found to promote deep, refreshing sleep.
Memory & Stress: Can be used to enhance memory and steady the nerves by fortifying Blood and Qi.
Energy: Great Qi tonic for building up your everyday energy. Consumed regularly, Longan boosts temporary energy as well as long term vitality, yet it is not a stimulant like caffeine. It gives you energy while simultaneously relaxing you.
Blood-Building: In Chinese herbalism, there is a saying: “Women are governed by Blood”. It reflects a fundamental concept that Blood plays a particularly pivotal role in women’s health. It is closely linked to several critical physiological functions, including menstruation, fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, emotional well-being, and menopause. Blood tonics such as Longan build healthy rich blood. Everyone can benefit from Blood tonics, but women frequently need Blood tonics because of their hormonal and menstrual functions. Since blood nourishment is closely tied to the condition of the skin, Blood tonics are also used to promote radiant and healthy skin.
Heart Health: Longan is traditionally used as a Heart tonic.*
Made from premium Longan Fruit from a Taoist temple
Super potent hydro-ethanolic extraction

Ingredients

Longan

Other Ingredients

Water, Grain Alcohol (30% by volume)

Dosage

3-12 droppers per day as desired or as directed by your health care practitioner

Traditional Function

Nourishes blood and calms Shen. Augments the Heart and Spleen. Enters the Heart and Spleen meridians. Sweet flavor. Warm temperature

Who can use it?

Adults

Product Description

Longan

Longan, translated literally as "Dragon Eye", is a delicious fruit extremely popular in Asia as a snack and as an ingredient in tonic teas and formulations. It has a slightly chewy texture with a unique sweet, smoky flavor.

There is a saying in Chinese herbalism that "women are governed by blood.” As a result, women generally benefit significantly from blood tonics. Longan is a great blood tonic, often combined with other blood tonics such as Dang Gui and Peony root to make blood-building teas and formulations.*

It is a great Qi tonic for building up your everyday energy. Consumed regularly, Longan boosts temporary energy as well as long term vitality, yet it is not a stimulant like caffeine. It gives you energy while simultaneously relaxing you.*

Sleep

Longan promotes tranquility. Longan has been found to promote deep, refreshing sleep.*

It can be used to enhance memory and steady the nerves by fortifying Blood and Qi.*

Longan is a famous beauty herb. Longan adds luster and beauty to the skin.*

Longan has a 2000-year reputation as a fantastic sex tonic for women. For that reason, Longan is considered a MUST for women who wish to be both beautiful and sensual.*

Longan’s effects are not hormonally driven.* Longan is equally beneficial to men and women.

Longan is believed to directly promote heart health by nourishing the heart tissues.*

Ingredients: Longan fruit.

Going Deep

Sourcing

Extraction

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Going Deep

Longan (Euphoria longan) is a wonderful and delicious tonic fruit used by the Chinese as a blood tonic, to build energy (Qi), calm the mind, strengthen the Spleen, tonify the Qi of the heart, and to add luster and beauty to the skin. Its Chinese name is Long Yan Rou, which means Dragon Eye Meat. Of course, being a fruit, it is not really “meat.” Longan (“dragon eyes”) is so named because when the fruit is fresh, the flesh of the peeled fruit is a translucent white color. The dark brown seed shows through the translucent flesh and looks like the pupil of an eye. As a result, the fruit looks like the bulging eyes of the dragons often depicted in Chinese art. The seed, which is small, round and hard has been removed, of course, from the Longan sold for snacking and general eating. The dried fruit becomes a lovely golden color and has a unique flavor unlike any other dried fruit.

Longan

Longan is called "Dragon Eye" in Chinese, and a look inside a fresh Longan explains the name.

It is believed among the Chinese people that Longan is not only great for the skin, but is also a fantastic sex tonic, especially for women. For that reason, Longan is considered a special tonic for women who wish to be both beautiful and sexual — it has a 2000 year reputation as a special love tonic. It is said that the most beautiful women in China eat Longan. It is believed to have a calming effect and to add radiance to the eyes.

Longan is not really just a “woman’s herb” though. Longan is equally beneficial to men. It has no direct hormonal action. It may be consumed by men as they please as an excellent blood, Qi and Shen tonic. Longan is totally unisex and may be enjoyed by people of all ages and in any kind of health condition.*

Longan Bush Longan Field

Dragon Herbs Longan plantation bearing a bounty of juicy sweet fruit.

Ron Plantation

Ron climbing one of our longan trees at the farm in Southern China.

Longan is one of the premier blood tonics of Chinese tonic herbalism. This fruit has a high content of iron, about 20 times that of grapes and 15 times that of spinach. Those with iron excess should be aware of this.

Longan promotes tranquility and can promote deep, refreshing sleep. Traditionally, it is used to increase physical stamina and promote peripheral circulation, warming up cold hands and feet.

Longan Plantation Taoist Shrine

Left: At the center of Dragon Herbs Longan plantation is a Taoist shrine where locals congregate to pray for blessings, a bountiful harvest and peace.

Middle: Yanlin at an incense burner at the entrance to the Taoist shrine.

Right: View of the Dragon Herbs Longan plantation in Southern China from the Taoist shrine at the center.

Sourcing

Di Tao

Dragon Herbs has developed a relationship with local herb collectors in the high altitude regions of Changbai Mountain, the Di Tao authentic source of Reishi. These amazing people spend their entire lives scouring the remote pristine forests looking for the rarest herbs – Wild Reishi, Wild Ginseng, Wild Schizandra, Wild Asparagus, and so on. We are fortunate to have a limited but steady supply of truly wild Reishi mushroom. These mushrooms are not planted or wildcrafted by humans. They grow where they will, where they are perfectly suited. The growing environment is extremely harsh (alpine). As a result, they develop great power.

Master Herbalist, Ron Teeguarden, with wild Red Reishis over the years:

Extraction

State-of-the-Art Industrial Extraction

Dragon Herbs tinctures, commonly referred to as “Dragon Drops,” are alcohol-and-water extracts of the highest quality tonic herbs in the world. These highly concentrated fluid extracts are available in 2 ounce glass dropper bottles with glass droppers. Dragon Drops formulations are developed by Master Herbalist Ron Teeguarden. We buy our herbs directly from herb farmers and herb hunters.

There are two primary natural solvents in this world: water and alcohol. The plants’ active compounds are usually either water-soluble or alcohol-soluble. The best full spectrum extraction method is to extract plants using both water and alcohol. That is how Dragon Drops are made.

Our Dragon Drops formulations go through 2 rounds of low temperature water extraction and 1 round of alcohol extraction. The extracted materials from all 3 rounds (water and alcohol) are then combined and condensed by removing majority of the solvents, reducing the volume by 90-95%. Essential oils evaporated during the extraction are trapped in oil traps and added back to the extracts. What you receive in our tinctures are therefore the essence of the essence. It has the best of both worlds: water-soluble compounds AND alcohol-soluble compounds.

Ron Extraction

The alcohol extraction equipment is expensive and its process has to be carefully controlled due to the combustibility of alcohol. Most companies do not use heat in their tincture production so they do not have to invest in high tech equipment upfront and they can keep the ongoing operating costs low. This is why most tinctures on the market are, in reality, infusions. In their low tech procedure, dry herbs are soaked in 20-90% alcohol then the infused solvent is sold. That is it. No heat, no cooking, no condensing. Only soaking. These end products sold in tincture form are practically solvents infused with herbs.

Infusions are NOT extracts. You can literally see and taste the difference.

If you want true “tinctures,” step up to Dragon Drops, the most potent true tinctures in the world.

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