moxa

English

Etymology

From Japanese 艾 ‎(mogusa, “mugwort”). The u is not strongly pronounced in Japanese, leading to its disappearance and the devoicing of the plosive. First used by Hermann Buschoff, a Dutch minister in Batavia, who wrote the first book about this remedy in 1674.

Noun

moxa ‎(countable and uncountable, plural moxas)

1. Dried leaves of an Asian species of mugwort, Artemisia argyi as used in moxibustion.
2. Any other plant used in moxibustion.

Derived terms

• moxibustion

Translations

mugwort leaves

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 艾絨, 艾绒 (zh) ‎(àiróng), 艾 (zh) ‎(ài)

• Finnish: pujon (fi) juuri (fi)
• French: moxa (fr) m

• Korean: 쑥 (ko) ‎(ssug)
• Japanese: 艾 (ja) ‎(もぐさ, mogusa), 灸 (ja) ‎(きゅう, kyū, やいと, yaito)
• Russian: кита́йская полы́нь f ‎(kitájskaja polýnʹ)

See also

• moxibustion on Wikipedia.en.Wikipedia:moxibustion