moxa

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈmɒksə/    美 /ˈmɑksə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A woolly material obtained from the dried leaves of an Asian species of mugwort, such as Artemisia argyi, as used in moxibustion. countable,uncountable
    — And thereupon she burned with her Moxa (of which hereafter) on my feet and knees, (to my best remembrance) about twenty little Escars, which looked like lit∣tle gray specks, without raising any blisters, or causing any after-pain; whereupon also all the pain of the Gout vanish’d.
  2. Any other substance used in moxibustion. countable,uncountable

词形变化

moxas plural

词汇关系

衍生词
moxibustion

词源

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.
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