Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1888-03-09
THE MOXA.
A Japanese Remedy for Paraly-
sis That Sears the Flesh.
ResortIng to Torturous Methods
to euro Human Ills.


While we lunchcd In tho open quad.
ranglc before the tcmplc at Yokohama
Japan, groups OF chccry japanese camo
In chattcring M gayly NJ any picnickcfs
could wish 10, took Oft their straw san
dals, washed their feet, and disappeared
In jolly parties to tho interior Of tho
temple. When we dropped our shoes
and followed 10 the one upper room, We
& und our jolly chattcrcrs all there, ait.
ting In rows with their faces TO the
walls All were stripped to tho waist,
an tho old priest made MARKS on their
backs In sacrel characters to Indicate
whcfc the moxa should bc burned
Following him camc n ,mill boy with
what appeared to bo very sticky dough
In ono hand. With dcxtcrous fingers
this young,tcr pinchcd of bit OF
dough, rolled II ilto small conc. and
stuck !, over tho pric,,'s mark. After
him came stail. stoicai youngster.
WHO In tho most cold bloodci wny.
touched match to tho tip OF tho moxa
cone, and went down tho lines giving
lights II burned without flame, slow
rod glow like charcoal, consuming the
conc down to tho ilosh, where Il sizzlcd
and smoked for few seconds, that
must have seemed years to tho victims.
Securing with rcd-hot iron would be-
quick and humane treatment compared
TO this slow eating fire OF the roxa
Tao men aud women that watched
for tho few minutes that could endure
II, stood Il heroicaliy, but by tho ten
sion Of every muiclc ia their backs and
arms ono could judge Of their agony.
onc old man folded his arms. bent his
hca over and indulgcl in suppressed
chucklcs that varisd with groans AMI
hysteIical hal hal hast A woman
buried her face In n blue cotton towel
and made no sign or movement, while
two moxa cones were burning down and
into her Il sh. A yeung man started to
rock TO AMI fro whsn thi fro began en-.
tering into his very bonc', but soon
stopped II, braccd himself, and sat
moiionlcs'. The priest, having set his
seal on his victims, sat down by
brnzIer, put on his iis spcctnclcs, and
was soon lost in reading piouI book,
wholly jndlfferc-t 10 tho row Of backs
frizz,ing beside him.
This mino priest has soms secret or
composition for hi, moxs dough that
hHs kept II In favor for mans years, and
about the Only roycruo OF tho temple J..
from his patients fees. For rhcuma.
tism, lumbago aud such aches aud ills IL
Is most beneficial, nnl gives quick relief
TO any one heroic enough 10 endure IL.
The Japanese resort 10 moxa for almost
everything that ais them. and one secs
coolies with their backs and tho calves Of
their legs covered with moxa scars. For
eign doctors hays discoy red tho virtue,
OF tho treatment for certain things, and
IN Paris many c,soi Of paralysi, have
been successfully treated, Charles Sum.
ner having been ono OF tho IA
nous eases, whose paralyzd nerves
wer5 revived by mox. A variation
Of the treatment used IN Paris uader the
name OF moxa conFists ia burning with
whitc-hot irons. which - much less
paiaiul ihan with paste cones. and
Clam Morris vas orc Of the best adver
tised subjects undergoing the white iron
moxa. When the patient, descended
from the NIX room, put on their saa.
dals and muttero suilen prayer to-
ward the open door % tho tempt. they
we're hardly 10 be idenfide with tho
gay people who had arrived earlier, and
when they walked. il was plain by tho
way they held their shoulders that the
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