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Fulong Gan is the name of a Chinese medicinal—namely, furnace earth (zaoxin tu), the red soil taken from the center of a rural wood-fired stove. This red clay has been calcined many times at the furnace chamber, giving it special properties. Its main components are…

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).