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A few days ago I published an article titled "Experience Using Pifang Xuedu Wan for Vaginal and Anal Itching," after which many readers contacted me—some asking about medication, others sharing their own experience treating genital itching. One reader told me about a Japanese Kampo product…

The Chinese medicinal Difuzi is the ripe fruit of Kochia scoparia, of the Chenopodiaceae family; it is also known as Dikui, Dimai and Qiantouzi. In the countryside the whole Kochia plant is often used to make brooms, so Difuzi is also called Saozhouri (broom seed).