one of the methods in which one's breath is used to manipulate subtle energies in Taoist thought. This process can be used either for the purpose of healing, as a means of transpowering or for sexual control.

(medicine) blowing air or medicated powder into the lungs (or into some other body cavity)

an act of blowing or breathing on or into something

The use of carbon dioxide to inflate body cavities during endoscopic surgery to enable surgeons to view internal organs.

blowing air into a body cavity

Insufflation (Latin insufflatio "blowing on or into") is the practice of inhaling substances into a body cavity. It has a narrowly defined set of medical uses, a somewhat vaguer set of religious uses (most notably within Christian liturgy), and an ill-defined set of magical and quasi-magical uses, descending at the extreme perhaps to undefinable gestures and nonce uses.