Moxibustion Therapy

Moxibustion is a technique used in traditional Chinese medicine in which a stick or cone of burning mugwort (Artemesia vulgaris), is placed over an inflamed or affected area on the body. The cone is placed on an acupuncture point and burned. The cone is removed as the intensity of heat increases.

Moxibustion is known for its ability to turn breech presentation babies into a normal head-down position that is considered safer during childbirth. In a 1998 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, 75% of the pregnant women in the study had breech foetuses that turned in the normal position.