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moxa
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moxa \Mox"a\, n. [A corruption of Japan. mogusa (pronounced mongsa), an escharotic made from the plant yomigi: cf. F. moxa.]
(Med.) A soft woolly mass prepared from the young leaves of Artemisia Chinensis, and used as a cautery by burning it on the skin; hence, any substance used in a like manner, as cotton impregnated with niter, amadou.
(Bot.) A plant from which this substance is obtained, esp. Artemisia Chinensis, and Artemisia moxa.
Wiktionary
n. 1 mugwort root, as used in moxibustion. 2 Any other plant used in moxibustion.
Wikipedia
The municipality of Moxa forms part of the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia, Germany.
Usage examples of "moxa".
Our unfortunate medical brother, Michael Servetus, the spiritual patient to whom the theological moxa was applied over the entire surface for the cure of his heresy, came very near anticipating Harvey.
It borrowed acupuncture and the moxa from the Japanese heathen, and was taught the use of lobelia by the American savage.
If you can discover the footprints of that robber in your garden, and then promptly burn a very large moxa on each of them, the soles of the feet of the robber will become inflamed, and will allow him no rest until he returns, of his own accord, to put himself at your mercy.
Nosoki told me that he relies mainly on the application of the moxa and on acupuncture in the treatment of acute diseases, and in chronic maladies on friction, medicinal baths, certain animal and vegetable medicines, and certain kinds of food.
Shizuka often roamed the mountains gathering wild mushrooms, mugwort to make moxa with, bugle and madder for dyes, and the other, deadlier harvest from which Kenji prepared poison.
Han manner, by sticking pins in my feet and burning little heaps of moxa fluff up and down my spine.
So instead she knelt, opened the lacquer box, and began to take out the eleven small gray moxa cones.
The emergency treatment often used by warriors was moxibustion, and Genba had stopped at a farmhouse in the mountains, asked for moxa, and applied it around the opening of the wound.
Genba was busy applying the moxa, the farmers held a secret conclave in which they decided that they would probably receive a handsome reward for turning Katsutoshi and Genba over to Hideyoshi.
By using the moxa three or four times a day the doctor killed the goose that laid the golden eggs.
Hippocrates advises a moxa of mushrooms applied over the spleen for melting or dissolving it.