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A Blue Poppy blog post by Bob Quinn


Tuberculosis is once again rearing its ugly head globally as it did 100 years ago. In those long ago days we did not yet have antibiotics to combat this killer. Surprisingly there were practitioners in Japan in that era reporting success using direct moxa treatments on their TB patients. Wow, what a surprise! I believe patients received in general three treatments a week for six months.

Obviously burning this herb material on the skin does not kill bacteria. That should be clear. In our modern way of thinking of things we’d probably say that moxa seems to strengthen the host immunity, so that the patients can better combat the disease.

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