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n. (context folk medicine English) The burning of moxa against the skin to treat pain or illness.
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Moxibustion is a traditional Chinese medicine therapy which consists in burning moxa made from dried mugwort ( Artemisia argyi) on particular points on the body. It plays an important role in the traditional medical systems of China (including Tibet), Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Mongolia. Suppliers usually age the mugwort and grind it up to a fluff; practitioners burn the fluff or process it further into a cigar-shaped stick. They can use it indirectly, with acupuncture needles, or burn it on the patient's skin. Available scientific evidence does not support claims that moxibustion is effective in preventing or treating cancer or any other disease.
Usage examples of "moxibustion".
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.
We could hospitalize you, stuff you with drugs, irradiate your skin, smear you with calamine lotion, even conduct experiments in homeopathy and acupuncture and moxibustion.