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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
  <source-url>https://bencaoindex.com/</source-url>
  <canonical>https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/xue-jie/</canonical>
  <licence>Free to use and republish with visible attribution and a link back to the source page. The catalogue is a reference work and is knowingly incomplete; nothing in it is medical advice.</licence>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">xue jie</name>
    <name type="chinese">血竭</name>
    <name type="latin">Resina Daemonoropis</name>
    <name type="english">Dragon&apos;S Blood</name>
    <name type="japanese">kekketsu</name>
    <name type="korean">hyeolgal</name>
  </names>
  <category>Invigorate the Blood</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Heart</channel>
    <channel>Liver</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Invigorates Blood, dispels stasis and relieves pain</summary>
      <indication>Pain from Blood stasis, particularly after injuries such as falls, fractures, bruising and sprains</indication>
      <indication>Swelling, bruising and fixed pain from traumatic injury</indication>
      <indication>Absent or painful periods</indication>
      <indication>After childbirth, a congested chest and difficult breathing</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Stops bleeding</summary>
      <indication>Bleeding from external injury, applied topically</indication>
      <indication>Taken internally for bleeding from the upper gut</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Protects the ulcer surface, prevents decay and generates flesh</summary>
      <indication>Long-standing ulcers and sores that fail to heal, and cancers</indication>
      <indication>Open, suppurating sores</indication>
      <indication>Painful, swollen hemorrhoids</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
