Definition of "moxibustion"

Traditional Chinese medicine includes herbal remedy, diet therapy, use of animal secretion and organs, acupuncture, massage, moxibustion (the application of a burning moxa plant to skin), and other folk methods.

1998, Lin Zhan, edited by Lin Zhan, Asian Voices: Asian and Asian-American Health Educators Speak Out‎, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Xi Young Hong: Health Practice in Chinese Older Women, page 36