With a match, or rather with a lighter, one of the ends of the cigar lights up, blowing over it because the whole section is glowing and consumed in a regular way. This is artemisia dried then smoking.

METHOD OF USE: Carefully approaches the glittering tip of the stick, keeping it perpendicular to the well-located point you want to treat, and keep it at a distance of about 5 cm.
You must feel the heat penetrate progressively; you have to experience a sweet feeling, not brutal, which gradually intensifies to the limit beyond which it becomes unpleasant.
Usually this threshold is reached in about 30 seconds, but time depends on everyone’s sensitivity. Even before you can feel pain, you need to move the stick for a few moments to reduce the heat intensity.
So he approaches it again, always at about 5 cm, for a shorter time, until the reappearance of the unpleasant feeling. Still a short break and so on.
The procedure is repeated several times, until the point where the application is executed becomes warm or warm and does not start to flush. Since that time the application of moxa is effective and the session can end. Generally this achievement is reached in about 3 minutes.
Of course, however, everything depends on the time of exposure to heat and the duration of the break, in short, from the threshold of pain and the sensitivity of each.
Finally, turn off the rod after being used under the cold water tap, making sure that no more smoke is released and ashes are cold. This way, however, you can not restart it unless at least 48 hours later.
It would be best to turn it off by suffocating the brazier, for example by inserting it into a glass container of a little diameter, like a flask of empty medicines, or in a sand ashtray, or even in one of those metal tubes where the cigars