一切經音義 38.141

38.141

蜈蚣（上音吳下音公本草云蜈蚣毒蟲也能噉諸虵殺鬼物老精魅出江南亦所在皆有生於腐爛積草中性能制虵直上虵背囓其腦頭赤足赤者最良足黃者不堪若囓人以桑汁白鹽和塗即愈廣雅云蝍蛆即蜈蚣也大者形長五六寸百有餘足古今正字並從虫形聲字）。

蜈蚣 (The upper character has the sound 吳 [wú]; the lower character has the sound 公 [gōng]. The Bencao says: "The centipede is a venomous creature that can consume all kinds of snakes and slay ghosts and ancient demons. It occurs in Jiangnan, though it is found everywhere, breeding in decaying piles of vegetation. By nature it can subdue snakes: it climbs straight onto the snake's back and bites its brain. Those with red heads and red legs are the best; those with yellow legs are useless. If it bites a human, applying mulberry juice mixed with white salt will heal it immediately." The Guangya says: "The jiju is the centipede; the large ones are five or six inches long, with more than a hundred legs." In standard ancient and modern writing, both are phono-semantic graphs with 虫.)