Artemisia, once worked, for therapeutically use, is known as MOXA WOOL or simply MOXA. It can be obtained easily, through the crop of the new (only) part of the plant and let it dry in the sun and after in shadow for a determined time. After it's dry, it is crumbled, with the hands or pestle, and sifted to reduce it to powder, till it stays like an uniform mass that remember the vegetal wool.

As older Moxa is, the better it is, and it's best quality could be determined by the bright yellow color. It as the property to warm deeply and, by the heat, remove the body energetic meridians obstructions, eliminating the humidity and cold that promote dysfunctions in the body.

Moxa is applied over the vital energy (KI) condensation points in the body energetic meridians, the called "TSUBO" points in Japan (Acupuncture points, which allow to contact and act more intensely in the meridians energy).

Moxibustion could be applied in a direct or indirect form. In direct Moxibustion, a small cone of Moxa is made, with the size of a rice grain, that is placed directly in the skin over a TSUBO, lightened after, and then extinguished, pressing above with a finger, when the sensation in the point is very hot. The indirect Moxibustion could be applied in two ways: or placing the Moxa in an appropriate cone recipient (or over a piece of ginger or garlic) which is placed in the skin, not having direct contact between the Moxa and skin; or by approaching a burning Moxa stick to the TSUBO, without contact with the skin.

In the Moxibustion treatment the following order of applying Moxa in the diverse TSUBOS, used in each thickness, should be observed: First we should treat the front of the body and then the back, starting from top to the bottom and from the centre to the extremities. Also, for women, the treatment must start from the left to the right side of the body, and for men, from the right to the left side.

Moxibustion could be used in diverse types of thickness, and is recommended namely in:

• Chronic illness, that weaken the body;
• Degenerative illness;
• Elderly people;
• Children and weaken persons in a general mode;
• Sportsmen and athletes, to improve their performance;
• To prevent illness and to maintain health;
• In all circumstances that needles (Acupuncture) can't be used.

Some precautions should be taken using Moxibustion, like don't applying it in persons with full filled stomach or with complete empty stomach, felling frailty, or in some other diverse situations where it is contraindicated, namely: