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The standards of medicinal herbs are provided differently in each nations. So the dissimilarity of the standards should be verified for the standardization of medicinal herbs. The requirements of ‘longan aril’ were compared among the Korean Pharmacopoeia (KP), the Japanese Pharmacopoeia (JP), Pharmacopoeia of the People’s Republic of China (ChP), Vietnamese Pharmacopoeia (VP), the Pharmacopoeia of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DP), and Thai Agricultural Standard (TAS). There were different requirements of longan aril among the pharmacopoeias, such as the name, morphological description, identification, purity, loss on drying, ash content, extract content, and so on. The differences of standards among northeast-asian countries should be investigated thoroughly in terms of efficacy and safety. This study would be a helpful reference for the revision of the regulation on herbal medicine.