Moxibustion is a procedure that burns moxa stick, in which a bunch of sliced dried mugwort or wormwood plants is to form a stick or roll, it is just like a long cigar, there are two main types of moxibustion: direct and indirect.
The direct mode is the most popular, it is often with acupuncture needles, the hot produced from the burning moxa stick will be sent to the inside skin with acupuncture needles, sometimes, people do the moxibustion without acupuncture, just burn the moxa stick and place it near the body to heat the skin.
The indirect mode is used with a burning box, moxa rolls are burning inside the box, and the heat is sent to the skin through the box, which is usually made of metal, sometimes wooden or plastic.
Ginger is used in somewhere; it is to increase heat according traditional Chinese medicine therapy.
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