Dragon's Blood Resin

Traditional Use

Primary Actions

• Invigorates Blood and alleviates pain - classically used for trauma, bruising, fixed pain, and menstrual pain when Blood stasis obstructs the collaterals.
• Dispels stasis and stops bleeding - especially valued for traumatic bleeding, ulcerated lesions, and selected internal bleeding presentations where stasis and tissue damage coexist.
• Promotes tissue regeneration and heals sores - applied externally to chronic non-healing wounds, ulcers, hemorrhoids, and suppurative lesions that need both protection and faster repair.

Secondary Actions

• Xue Jie is almost always used as a fine powder, pill ingredient, or topical dusting agent rather than as a long-decocted herb because the resin does not dissolve well in water.
• Its best-known clinical partnerships are with Ru Xiang and Mo Yao, which strengthen the pain-relieving, swelling-reducing, and tissue-healing profile in trauma formulas.

Classic Formulas

• Qi Li San (七厘散) - classic trauma powder in which Xue Jie serves as the chief Blood-moving, pain-relieving, and hemostatic resin for injuries, bruising, and swelling.
• Die Da Wan (跌打丸) - trauma-pill traditions use Xue Jie to move Blood, relieve pain, and assist tissue repair after blunt injury.
• Xue Jie with Ru Xiang and Mo Yao - a classic resin pairing strategy for fixed pain, traumatic swelling, and chronic sores that need both movement of stasis and regeneration of flesh.

Classical References

• Me & Qi and Sacred Lotus agree that Xue Jie is sweet, salty, and neutral, enters the Heart and Liver channels, and is prized for moving Blood, stopping bleeding, relieving pain, and generating flesh.
• Sacred Lotus specifically highlights trauma, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, hemorrhoids, and chronic ulcers, while Me & Qi emphasizes that Xue Jie is one of the key resin medicinals in trauma recovery and wound care.
• SOURCE NOTE: modern Chinese medicine uses more than one botanical source under the broader dragon's-blood idea. Me & Qi centers the imported Daemonorops draco resin, while Chinese domestic literature often studies Dracaena-based dragon's-blood materials. This record keeps the traditional medicinal identity broad and makes the plant-source variation explicit rather than pretending the literature is perfectly uniform.