Japanese Gold Moxa from Ibuki Mountains

Yamasho Gold Mountain Moxa - Loose Golden Moxa from Mount Ibuki

Loose moxa is also called moxa floss. As the original form of moxa, loose moxa is the material of moxa rolls and sticks. Meanwhile, loose moxa is also directly applied to moxibustion.

The raw material of Yamasho loose golden moxa is high-quality mugwort leaves from Mount Ibuki which is located in central Japan.

The loose moxa set includes 5 incense sticks for lighting the moxa.

What is golden moxa

Golden moxa is moxa with very high purity. Moxa with higher purity means that moxa has been filtered more times during its production, so there are fewer impurities and tiny fragments of leaves. The higher proportion of fibers makes moxa have a lighter color. The color of moxa with very high purity is golden, so this kind of moxa is called “Golden Moxa”.

Golden moxa has gentle effects and its smoke has less irritation, making it adaptable to people with different ages and different body constitutions.

Use of loose moxa

Loose moxa was always directly used for moxibustion until the fifteenth century in which there was the first record about using paper to roll moxa.

Before using loose moxa, it is always pressed into a compact form. For direct moxibustion and indirect moxibustion, loose moxa is generally pressed into a moxa cone. For warm acupuncture, loose moxa is also pressed into a cluster. Moreover, loose moxa can be put into a moxa burner container.

Manufacturer

The loose moxa is made by Yamasho Co., Ltd. in Japan. The company is a manufacturer and distributor of acupuncture and moxibustion supplies.

Effects of moxibustion

Moxibustion is a traditional Chinese external therapy. Huang Di Nei Jing, the most important theoretical work of TCM, describes the importance of moxibustion as “the problems that acupuncture cannot solve are the advantages of moxibustion”. Moxibustion warms meridians, strengthens Yang and makes Qi run smoothly, as well as gets rid of blood stasis, pathogenic cold and pathogenic dampness. The therapeutic effects of burning moxa are from heat, infrared radiation, and volatile oil.

Additionally, in ancient China, fumigation by burning mugwort leaves was an important way of epidemic prevention.