mugwort and moxibustion

Moxibustion is a form of heat therapy.



Dried herbs, like a giant cigar  are lit.


I had a sore leg, and the practitioner burn a 


stick and went round my leg.

 

艾草 in Mandarin. mugwort growing really nicely even in winter

used in the practice of traditional Chinese medicine in a pulverized and aged form called moxa. 

艾草（学名：Artemisia argyi