moxibustion

English

Etymology

Blend of moxa (“mugwort”) +‎ combustion (“burning”), literally "burning of mugwort", with the connecting -i- usual in Latinate vocabulary.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˌmɒksɪˈbʌst͡ʃən/

Noun

moxibustion (countable and uncountable, plural moxibustions)

  1. (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.

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