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moxa

[ mok-suh ]

noun

  1. a flammable substance or material obtained from the leaves of certain Chinese and Japanese wormwood plants, especially Artemisia moxa.
  2. 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.


moxa

/ ˈmɒksə /

noun

  1. a downy material obtained from various plants and used in Oriental medicine by being burned on the skin as a cauterizing agent or counterirritant for the skin
  2. any of various plants yielding this material, such as the wormwood Artemisia chinensis
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of moxa1

1670–80; by uncertain mediation < Japanese mogusa, equivalent to mo ( y ) e burn + -gusa, combining form of kusa herb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of moxa1

C17: anglicized version of Japanese mogusa, contraction of moe gusa burning herb
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Example Sentences

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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