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How to do moxibustion?
The selected Folium Artemisiae Argyi is picked around the fifth day of the fifth lunar month (Dragon Boat Festival) every year, dried in the sun, then put the dried Folium Artemisiae Argyi on a stone, smashed with a wooden hammer until it is rotten, and screened to remove impurities. The remaining velvet is mugwort. Then put it in a cool and dry place for 3 years, then take it out and wrap it in cotton paper to make a long cylindrical roll of moxa sticks. Also known as moxa sticks. Generally, it is 20 cm long, with a diameter of 1.2 cm and a weight of about 20 grams. It can be made of pure moxa sticks or mixed with moxa sticks. The former is called pure moxa sticks and the latter is called medicinal moxa sticks.