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Caterpillar Fungus (Yartsa Gunbu)
Caterpillar fungus are known as yartsa gunbu (དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུ།) in Tibet—yartsa means summer grass, gunbu means winter worm. In Chinese it’s called “chongcao” or “dong chong xia cao” which also translates to “summer grass winter worm.” It’s…
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