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moxa

mox·a [ móksə ]


noun 
Definition:
 
plant preparation used as counterirritant: in Eastern medicine, a cone or cylinder of downy or wooly material derived from various plants that is burned on the skin for its counterirritant effect

[Late 17th century. < Japanese mogusa "burning herb"]
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