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Moxa
Moxa may refer to: * Moxa, material used in moxibustion, a Chinese traditional medicine * Mihail Moxa (1550–1650), Romanian historiographer and translator * Moxa, Thuringia The municipality of Moxa forms part of the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russ ..., Germany, municipality * Moxa Technologies, Taiwanese company {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moxibustion
Moxibustion () is a traditional Chinese medicine therapy which consists of burning dried mugwort ('' wikt:moxa'') on particular points on the body. It plays an important role in the traditional medical systems of China, 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. Moxibustion is promoted as a treatment for a wide variety of conditions, but its use is not backed by good evidence and it carries a risk of adverse effects. 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 (Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moxa, Thuringia
The municipality of Moxa forms part of the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe .... References Saale-Orla-Kreis {{SaaleOrla-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mihail Moxa
Mihail Moxa (; after 1550–before 1650) was a Wallachian historiographer and translator. Nothing is known about his family, but Moxa was probably from the Oltenia region, and was a monk at the Bistrița Monastery. He knew Old Church Slavonic well, translating religious texts into Romanian Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania **Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian language, a Romance language *** Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language ** Romanian cuisine, tradition ... in a colorful and fluent style. He compiled the first extant chronicle in Romanian.Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. II, p. 151. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004. Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Moxa, Mihail People from Oltenia Romanian Orthodox monks Moldavian and Wallachian chroniclers Early Modern Romanian writers Romanian translators Year of birth uncertain History of Wallachia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |