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Definition: MOXA |
MOXANoun1. A plant from which this substance is obtained, esp. Artemisia Chinensis, and A. moxa. 2. A soft woolly mass prepared from the young leaves of Artemisia Chinensis, and used as a cautery by burning it on the skin; hence, any substance used in a like manner, as cotton impregnated with niter, amadou. |
Etymology: Moxa \Mox"a\, noun. [A corruption of Japan. mogusa (pronounced mongsa), an escharotic made from the plant yomigi: compare to the French expression moxa.]. (Websters 1913) |
"MOXA" is a common misspelling or typo for: maxi, mix, moa, moan, moat, modal. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Calefaction | Cauterizer; caustic, lunar caustic, alkali, apozem, moxa; acid, aqua fortis, aqua regia; catheretic, nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric acid, nitromuriatic acid; radioactivity, gamma rays, alpha particles, beta rays, X-rays, radiation, cosmic radiation, background radiation, radioactive isotopes, tritium, uranium, plutonium, radon, radium. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Chinese word that often gets translated to "acupuncture" actually has two characters: one depicts a needle piercing the skin and the other represents the fluffy dried leaves of Mugwort or Moxa.
Actually, moxibustion predates acupuncture, and needling was added as a supplement to moxa after the 2nd century BC. In the West, acupuncture has overshadowed moxibustion as a treatment most probably because of two reasons: one, it takes more time (meaning longer patient visits, so that the practioner cannot leave room to treat several patients at once, translating into less money) and two, the fear of scarring.
The underutilization of moxibustion undervalues its importance in the treatment of chronic problems, deficiency, and how it is essential in gerontology. Bian Que, one of the most famous doctors of antiquity and the first specialist in moxibustion dicusses the benefits of moxa over acupuncture in his classic, he explains that moxa can add new energy to the body, and can be used for both excess and deficient conditions. On the other hand, with acupuncture you need to make sure you have sufficient energy in the body, so needle manipulation is not advised because it will leak too much energy in an already deficient patient.
There is an entire classical work (huge tome) devoted solely to treatment indication for moxa on a single point (穴): Gao Huang Shu (膏肓俞). And Taoists use scarring moxibustion along with Chinese medical astrology for longevity.
In North and South America, Mugwort is a sacred plant of divination and spiritual healing, as well as a panacea for many physical ailments. In Europe, sprigs were placed under pillows to provoke dreams and it is associated with the practice of magic in Anglo-Saxon times.
The word "moxa" comes from Japanese mogusa (艾), with the devoiced u unpronounced. Moxa is also called yomogi (蓬) in Japan. Chinese uses the same character as mogusa, but pronounced differently: ài, also called àiróng (艾絨), or "velvet of ài".
See also: Chinese medicine
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Moxa."
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Expressions using "MOXA": A moxa ♦ Artemisia moxa. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
moxa | 63 |
moxa stick | 5 |
acupuncture moxa | 3 |
acupuncture moxa needle | 3 |
moxa technology | 2 |
acupuncture moxa treatment | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "MOXA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Albanian | pambuk (cotton). (various references) | ||||||||||
Chinese | 艾絨 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 点す (to apply moxa cautery, to light, to turn on), 灸点 (moxa-treatment points), 灸治 (treatment with moxa), 灯す (to apply moxa cautery, to light, to turn on), 温灸 (moxa cautery). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | お"きゅう (moxa cautery, pension), きゅうじ (ancient times, bygones, office boy, old characters, page, past events, treatment with moxa, waiter), きゅうて" (classic, heavens, moxa-treatment points, not running, palace, sky, sudden change, tradition), さす (reef, sandbank, sandbar, to apply moxa cautery, to bite, to catch, to graft, to insert, to light, to pierce, to pin down, to play, to point, to pole, to pour, to prick, to put in, to put up umbrella, to putout, to raise umbrella, to raisehands, to serve, to shine, to stab, to stick, to sting, to stitch, to strike, to thrust, to wear in belt). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | oxamay китайская полынь. (various references) | ||||||||||
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Words beginning with "MOXA": moxas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-o-x" | |
-1 letter: max, moa. | |
-2 letters: am, ax, ma, mo, om, ox. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-o-x" | |
+1 letter: axiom, moxas. | |
+2 letters: axioms, bombax, myxoma. | |
+3 letters: axoneme, chamoix, exogamy, mailbox, monaxon, myxomas, oxymora, toxemia, waxworm. | |
+4 letters: amphioxi, anoxemia, anoxemic, apomixes, apomixis, axonemal, axonemes, axoplasm, cacomixl, exogamic, exonumia, matchbox, maxicoat, monaxial, monaxons, morceaux, myxomata, oxazepam, paroxysm, proximal, smallpox, taxonomy, toxaemia, toxaemic, toxemias, waxworms, xanthoma, xenogamy. | |
+5 letters: amphioxus, anoxemias, axiomatic, axoplasms, cacomixls, exogamies, exogamous, hypoxemia, mailboxes, maxicoats, myxoviral, oxazepams, paroxysms, proximate, tamoxifen, taxonomic, toxaemias, xanthomas. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 4F 58 41 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- -..- .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01001111 01011000 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M O X A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 004F 0058 0041 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47495835 |
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