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What (who) is moxa - definition
Moxa
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Moxa (disambiguation)
·noun A plant from which this substance is obtained, ·esp. Artemisia Chinensis, and A. moxa.
II. Moxa ·noun 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.
moxa
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Moxa (disambiguation)
['m?ks?]
¦ noun a downy substance obtained from the dried leaves of an Asian plant related to mugwort (Crossostephium artemisioides), burnt on or near the skin in Eastern medicine as a counterirritant.
Origin
C17: from Japanese mogusa, from moe kusa 'burning herb'.
Mihail Moxa
Mihail Moxa (; after 1550–before 1650) was a Wallachian historiographer and translator. Nothing is known about his family, but Moxa was probably from the Oltenia region, and was a monk at the Bistrița Monastery.
Examples of use of moxa
1. The medicines produce ill effect on digestive and metabolic systems. Ѓ@Researchers of the academy have succeeded in the research into the treatment of the idiopathic thrombocytopenia with Koryo medical method. Ѓ@They, basing themselves on the elucidation of the cause of the disease, found out the regions for moxibustion closely related with hematogenous function in the human body. Ѓ@They have treated patients with medicinal moxibustion by combining moxa and drugs which have hematogenous and hemostatic functions. Ѓ@Many of the patients have had their disease completely cured by the method.