一切經音義 19.65

19.65

Castor oil (蓖麻油: the upper character is with the fanqie of 閉 and 迷. The Kaosheng says: "蓖麻 is the name of a medicinal herb; its seeds are mottled like blister beetles and shaped like dog ticks, hence the name." It is sometimes written as 𮏰. In the scriptures it is written with the bean radical as 豍; the Shuowen says 豍 means the cowpea, which is not the meaning of the scripture).