一切經音義 18.29

18.29

反魂（十洲記云聚窟洲在西海中洲也。此上有大樹似此國楓香聞數百里名為反䰟樹。伐取其樹於玉釜中煮取汁。更以微火熟煎之如黑鍚令可丸名火驚精香。亦名震靈丸。亦名反生香。亦名人鳥精。亦名却死香。凡有五名。燒之香氣遠聞。死尸在地聞香仍活。漢延和三年武帝行幸安定宮。西國月支王遣使獻反䰟香四兩集絃膠神猛獸黃色甚小威伏百邪之[(魅-ㄙ)-未+(网-(ㄨ*ㄨ)+又)]魎。帝親試之皆有驗矣。帝輕之於後不覺失其使者及獸等莫知所之潛歸西國）。

反魂 (The Shizhou ji says: "Juku Island lies in the Western Sea. On it there are large trees resembling the sweetgum of this country, their scent detectable for hundreds of leagues; they are named 'soul-returning trees' [反魂樹]. One cuts down the tree and boils it in a jade cauldron to extract the sap, and further simmers it over a slow fire until it resembles black tin so that it can be rolled into pills; it is named 'Fire-Startling Essence Incense' [火驚精香], also named 'Spirit-Shaking Pill' [震靈丸], also named 'Return-to-Life Incense' [反生香], also named 'Human-Bird Essence' [人鳥精], also named 'Death-Averting Incense' [却死香]—there are five names in all. When burned, its fragrant vapor is smelled far away; corpses lying on the ground, upon smelling the fragrance, instantly revive. In the third year of the Yanhe era of the Han, Emperor Wu visited the Anding Palace; the king of the Yuezhi in the western countries sent an envoy to present four ounces of soul-returning incense, bowstring glue, and a divine ferocious beast, yellow in color and very small, whose majesty subdued the hundreds of demons and malevolent spirits. The Emperor tested them in person, and all proved efficacious. Afterward, the Emperor treated them lightly, whereupon before he knew it, the envoy, the beast, and the rest were lost, no one knowing where they had gone, having secretly returned to the western countries").