Beautiful Sweetgum Resin

Traditional Use

Primary Actions

• Activates Blood and alleviates pain - used for fixed painful swellings, traumatic pain, and stubborn masses where resinous blood movement helps disperse obstruction.
• Resolves toxin and dissipates nodules - classically chosen for scrofula, boils, carbuncles, and ulcerative lesions marked by pain, swelling, and chronicity.
• Cools Blood and helps stop bleeding - extended to nosebleed, vomiting blood, and bleeding external wounds when heat and blood damage complicate the pattern.
• Promotes tissue regeneration with topical use - incorporated into pastes and powders for ulcerated or incised lesions that need both pain relief and support for flesh generation.

Secondary Actions

• This Feng Xiang Zhi entry represents the same sweetgum resin as Bai Jiao Xiang; the duplicated slug is preserved only because the import source separated the synonym names.
• Clinically it belongs more to external medicine, trauma, and painful toxic swelling practice than to everyday digestive or tonic prescribing.

Classic Formulas

• Xiao Jin Dan (小金丹) - from Wai Ke Zheng Zhi Quan Shu Ji, where Feng Xiang Zhi or Bai Jiao Xiang participates in moving qi and blood, dispersing phlegm-stasis masses, and relieving pain in deep fixed swellings.

Classical References

• TCM Wiki lists Feng Xiang Zhi, Bai Jiao Xiang, and the related Chinese-character variants as the same resin of sweetgum, with pungent-bitter neutral properties and entry to the Spleen, Lung, and Liver channels.
• Traditional indications include deep-rooted boils, ulcers, scrofula, dental pain, epistaxis, and hematemesis, with use as decoction, powder, pill, or topical paste.
• IMPORT NOTE: This file is not a distinct herb from beautiful-sweetgum-resin; it is the same medicinal resin preserved as a second record because the spreadsheet used the alternate pinyin Feng Xiang Zhi.
• Trade and older herb references may use Resina Liquidamberis Taiwanianae or Resina Liquidamberis Formosanae as Latinized variants for the same substance.