Beautiful Sweetgum Resin Classic Formulas

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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.

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.

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.