The traditional Chinese medicine treatment using moxa, or mugwort herb, is once again becoming fashionable.
No matter how busy she is, a 43-year-old Beijing-based small business owner frequently goes to Guo Ai Tang, a moxibustion centre close to the woman's home.
Xi, who diminishes to give her full name, established the each week schedule early on this year when seeking traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) therapy to help relieve pain caused by a three-year-old mammary glands hyperplasia - a benign, often drastic enlargement with the mammary glands.
Previously, she'd rejected an operation advised from the woman's doctor to remove the apricot-stone-sized lump.
"The idea of a surgical procedure had been repellant and I recalled that while I was a kid, my grandmother used to have moxibustion when that she fell into ill," Xi says.
On her behalf first visit to Guo Ai Tang, which the woman chose for the location and popularity subsequent to an online search, she filled in a list of questions about common physical irritations, and had a brief discussion having a practitioner.
To her great amaze, the figured out the woman's
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