moxibustion
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English
Etymology
Blend of moxa (“mugwort”) + combustion (“burning”), literally "burning of mugwort", with the connecting -i- usual in Latinate vocabulary.
Pronunciation
Noun
moxibustion (countable and uncountable, plural moxibustions)
- (folk medicine) The burning of moxa against the skin to treat pain or illness.
- 1998, Lin Zhan, edited by Lin Zhan, Asian Voices: Asian and Asian-American Health Educators Speak Out, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, Xi Young Hong: Health Practice in Chinese Older Women, page 36:
- Traditional Chinese medicine includes herbal remedy, diet therapy, use of animal secretion and organs, acupuncture, massage, moxibustion (the application of a burning moxa plant to skin), and other folk methods.
Derived terms
Translations
burning of moxa against skin
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See also
moxibustion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
