一切經音義 86.139

86.139

Ligusticum 蘪蕪 (the first character is pronounced with the fanqie 美 + 悲; the second character is pronounced 無; the Yupian says: "Miwu is an aromatic plant." The Pharmacopoeia (Bencao) says: "Miwu is the shoot of Ligusticum sinense (xionggqiong)." The Shuowen jiezi states that both characters mi and wu take the grass radical 艸, with 麋 and 無 respectively serving as phonetics).