moxa
/mok-suh/US // ˈmɒk sə //UK // (ˈmɒksə) //
艾灸,艾草,艾条,艾绒
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a flammable substance or material obtained from the leaves of certain Chinese and Japanese wormwood plants, especially Artemisia moxa.
- : this substance or a similar one of cotton, wool, or the like, placed on the skin usually in the form of a cone or cylinder and ignited for use as a counterirritant.
Examples
It is really the Moxa of South America under an altered name.
Only these portions named might not have a moxa applied to them.
Others extended the value of the moxa beyond these affections.
In these tubes they sometimes placed lighted tobacco and blew down upon the part affected after the manner of a moxa, I suppose.
Moxa were cones of cotton wool or other substances which were placed upon the skin and burned.
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