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moxa

n 1  :  a soft woolly mass prepared from the young leaves of various wormwoods of eastern Asia and used esp. in Japanese popular medicine as a cautery by being ignited on the skin  2  :  any of various substances applied and ignited like moxa as a counterirritant .
 
 

 
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