Moxa is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 22 anagrams from letters in moxa (amox).
1670-80; by uncertain mediation Japanese mogusa, equivalent to mo(y)e burn + -gusa, combining form of kusa herb
It borrowed acupuncture and the moxa from the Japanese heathen, and was taught the use of lobelia by the American savage.
The small cone constituting the moxa is placed upon a part, lighted, and allowed to burn to its base.
Larrey recommends with the same view, after the application of moxa, the use of the aq.
The other remedy, or that known as the dam, is akin to what is known in Western surgery as a “moxa.”
It is really the moxa of South America under an altered name.
Only these portions named might not have a moxa applied to them.
In these tubes they sometimes placed lighted tobacco and blew down upon the part affected after the manner of a moxa, I suppose.
In sacrocoxalgia, in cocygodynia and femero-coxalgia he had excellent results with the moxa.
Others extended the value of the moxa beyond these affections.
As for fevers, why, the moxa is certain to drive away the bad spirits that cause them.
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