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moxibustion
Moxibustion () is a traditional Chinese medicine therapy using ''moxa'' made from dried mugwort (''Artemisia argyi''). Available scientific evidence does not support claims that moxibustion is effective in preventing or treating cancer or any other disease,〔 but it plays an important role in the traditional medical systems of China (including Tibet), 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.
== Terminology ==
The first Western remarks on moxibustion can be found in letters and reports written by Portuguese missionaries in 16th-century Japan. They called it “botão de fogo” (fire button), a term originally used for round-headed Western cautery irons. Hermann Buschoff who published the first Western book on this matter in 1674 (English edition 1676) used the Japanese word ''mogusa''. As the u is not very strongly enunciated, he spelled it “Moxa”. Later authors blended “Moxa” with the Latin word combustio (burning).
The name of the herb Artemisia (mugwort) species used to produce Moxa is ''yomogi'' (蓬) in Japan and ''ài'' or ''àicǎo'' (, ) in Chinese.〔There is a great variety of further Chinese names (''bingtai'' 、''ecao'' 、''xiang'ai'' 、''qiai'' 、''aihao'' 、''jiucao'' ﹑''yicao'' ﹑''huangcao'' ﹑''airong'' )〕
The Chinese names for moxibustion are ''jiǔ'' ( ) or ''jiǔshù'' ( ), Japanese use the same characters and pronounce as ''kyū'' and ''kyūjutsu''. In Korean the reading is ''tteum'' (뜸). Korean folklore attributes the development of moxibustion to the legendary emperor Dangun.
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