Research progress and key scientific problems of traditional Chinese moxibustion

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81973953 and 82174501).

Author contributions

Huangan Wu and Luyi Wu drafted the manuscript. All authors reviewed and approved the manuscript.

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