Hot shit!--KAWAGOE, JAPAN: Elderly women burn moxa (dried medicinal herbs) atop an unglazed plate on her head in order to improve her health, at the Myoshin-ji Temple in Kawagoe, suburban Tokyo...on the hottest day of summer (doyo-no-ushi-no-hi) on the traditional Japanese calender.

Great steaming cowpats Batman!

Ol Dirty Gaijin wrote:Great steaming cowpats Batman!

Oh it gets mo' betta.
Okyu/Moxibuxtion is used by Japanese parents as a treatment for peevish children.

i know someone whose mother ran out of moxa and used to burn him with a senko straight to the arm or back of the neck!

nice post btw! (is the first woman on the left an aged new half btw?)

New & Improved!

AFP/Getty Images, TOKYO, JAPAN: People burn moxa (dried medical herbs) on their heads through earthernware pans to "recover their health" at Tokyo's Myoen-ji temple, 28 July 2005. The 350-year-old custom called 'houroku-kyu' is believed to keep heads cool and refresh users bodies on hot summer days.

New & Improved! Now with women under the age of 60! Wo0t!
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AFP-Getty Images, Tokyo, JAPAN:
Buddhists burn moxa (dried medicinal herbs) atop unglazed plates on their heads as they chant for good health in a traditional summer ritual at Chokoku-ji Temple in Tokyo, 17 June 2007. Chokoku-ji Temple was established in 1630, in the early years of the Edo period, and it was dedicated to Nichiren, a Buddhist priest who founded a sect named after him.
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Who's to say that they aren't the same women? It could be proof that the anti-aging moxa takes a few years to kick in.