A citizen receives treatment of moxibustion at a Chinese medicine hospital in Jiaxing City, east China's Zhejiang Province, Nov. 17, 2010. Moxibustion is a traditional treatment in Chinese medicine to relieve pain and cure diseases by stimulating acupoints with burning mugwort. China's acupuncture and moxibustion of traditional Chinese medicine were inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity on Nov. 16, 2010 during the 5th session of the Inter-governmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage meeting in Nairobi, capital of Kenya. [Xinhua] |
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