Moxa: Fire Medicine for Healing

Moxa: Fire Medicine for Healing

Moxibustion, or moxa, is Fire Medicine. Sounds pretty cool, right? Used since about 500 BCE, moxibustion involves burning ground mugwort to warm certain points along your body. These points can coincide with acupuncture points or be other areas on the body that need attention.  Mugwort, or artemisia, is a flowering plant in the daisy family….