Camphor Wood

Traditional Use

Primary Actions

• Dispels wind-cold and unblocks the channels ... Xiang Zhang Mu is used for cold-type body pain, numbness, and stiff painful limbs.
• Warms the middle and regulates Qi ... traditional use extends to cold abdominal pain, vomiting, or diarrhea from interior cold.
• Moves blood and alleviates pain ... regional practice also uses it for bruising, traumatic soreness, and externally applied warming pain relief.

Secondary Actions

• This record corrects the misleading imported English name in place ... the medicinal lane here is camphor-tree wood, not cinnamon bark or cassia twig.
• Compared with the highly purified camphor crystal lane, Xiang Zhang Mu is the broader aromatic wood-and-stem material used in more traditional warming applications.

Classic Formulas

• Warming wood-based external applications for cold painful obstruction ... a familiar regional route.
• Cold-abdominal-pain pairings with warming middle-jiao herbs ... used when cold stagnation is the dominant pattern.
• Trauma and bruising combinations with blood-moving herbs ... especially when cold pain and stagnation overlap.

Classical References

• Traditional herb references describe Xiang Zhang Mu as a warm pungent aromatic wood that dispels wind-cold, regulates Qi, and relieves pain.
• Its source lane must stay separate from cassia drugs and from purified camphor products.