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Also known as moxa

thumb|upright|Moxibustion in Michael Bernhard Valentini's Museum Museorum (Frankfurt am Main, 1714)

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It is catalogued under topics including Alternative medicine, Traditional Chinese medicine and Traditions involving fire.

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Interventions.Name
Moxibustion
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File:Moxibustion by Li Tang.jpg
Interventions.Caption
Moxibustion by Li Tang, Song dynasty
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  • Terminology
  • Theory and practice
  • Uses and effectiveness
  • Pregnancy
  • Other
  • Adverse effects
  • Parallel uses of mugwort
  • See also
  • References
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thumb|upright|Moxibustion in Michael Bernhard Valentini's Museum Museorum (Frankfurt am Main, 1714)

Moxibustion () is a traditional Chinese medicine therapy which consists of burning dried mugwort (moxa) on particular points on the body. It plays an important role in the traditional medical systems of China, 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “moxibustion” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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