お灸きゅう

noun

moxibustion

Polite term for moxibustion, a traditional therapy where moxa is burned on the skin.

• 肩かたこりがひどいので、お灸きゅうをしてもらった。

  My stiff shoulders were so bad that I had moxibustion done.

noun

scolding; chastisement

Used in the idiom お灸を据える, meaning to give someone a stern scolding or to teach them a lesson.

See also: お灸を据える

• 遅ち刻こくが続つづいたので、部ぶ長ちょうにお灸きゅうを据すえられた。

  Because I was repeatedly late, the department head gave me a stern scolding.