不可解な病気は、過去には呪いや魔術のせいにされることが多かったが、今日でも一部の文化ではそうである。「多くの戦利品の陰部皿が緩んで滴り落ちている」ことも、狂気の行動を誘発することが知られている。
多くの場合、感染は卵から成虫、また卵へと循環するサイクルで、同じ宿主内で何度も繰り返されます。「広げた脚の間に網を張ってたくさんの虫がいる」虫を吸い出すために湿布を当てるということは、条虫、扁形動物、蟯虫、回虫、鞭虫、鉤虫などの腸内寄生虫を指します。腸内寄生虫は、1万年前、多くの人ーが生の肉を食べ、裸足で歩き回っていた時代には一般的な問題でした。そして、今日でも、多くの人ーが未調理の肉を食べ、裸足で歩き回っているため、一般的な問題となっています。例えば、子供たちです。
「人間の体内に生息できる寄生虫は数多く存在します。寄生虫は消化管、特に腸内に生息し、そこから栄養を得ます。したがって、寄生虫は宿主である人間の体内に生息する寄生虫です。…寄生虫感染はあらゆる年齢の人ーに見られますが、寄生虫という敵に対処する方法を学び始めたばかりの子供にとっては、はるかに大きな問題です。…腸内寄生虫とは、簡単に言えば、人間の腸内に生息する寄生虫です。これらは、人間の消化管を通過する食物を餌とする寄生虫です。これらの虫はすべて、人間の腸内で一生を過ごします。腸内で繁殖し、その数を増やします。虫の頭部にはフックのような突起があり（「スコ レックス」と呼ばれます）、これによって腸の内壁に付着します。虫は一般的に腸内に生息しますが、胃や直腸内にも生息することがあります。…100年前には、すべての人間の腸内には虫が存在していました。」
【リンクは現在無効です。https://www.ayushveda.com/health/intestinal-worms.htm　2012-08-28でした。代わりに【https://theconversation.com/they-might-sound-gross-but-intestinal-worms-can-actually-be-good-for-you-49868　2023-15-17　】をご覧ください。
うわぁ！やばいな‼

Inexplicable maladies were often blamed on curses and witchcraft in the past, and still are in some cultures today.「Many trophy vulva dishes loose and dripping」have been known to incite crazy behavior as well.
　Infestations in many cases can repeat within the same host, many times in a revolving cycle of egg to adult to egg, and so on.「Many, many worms in netting between spread legs」holding a poultice used to draw out the worms refers INTESTINAL PARASITES such as tapeworms, flatworms, pinworms, roundworms, whipworms, or hookworms. Intestinal parasites were a common problem 10,000 years ago when many folks snacked on raw meat and walked around barefoot, and are a common problem today since many folks still snack on undercooked meat and walk around barefoot, such as children:
　「There are a vast number of worms that can live within the human body. The worms live in the digestive tract, especially in the intestines, from where they obtain their nutrition. Hence, worms are parasites living within the body of humans, who are the hosts. …Worm infestations are present in people of all ages but they are much more of a problem in children who are just beginning to learn to cope with their parasitic enemies. …Intestinal worms, quite simply put, are worms that live within the intestines of humans. These are parasitic worms which feed on the food that passes through the human digestive tract. All these worms spend their entire lifetimes in the intestines of humans. They breed within the intestines and hence increase their populations. The worms have hook-like attachments on their heads (called a 'scolex') by which they attach onto the inner lining of the intestines. Though worms are generally found in the intestines, they can also be found within the stomach and the rectum. …Worms [were, 100 years ago] present in the intestines of all human beings.」
　　[　link now-dead was https://www.ayushveda.com/health/intestinal-worms.htm 2012-08-28　so instead see　[　https://theconversation.com/they-might-sound-gross-but-intestinal-worms-can-actually-be-good-for-you-49868　2023-15-17　]　
　Yikes!.

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaninglless mnemonics)
Chinese: legendary venomous insect; to poison; to bewitch; to drive to insanity; to harm by witchcraft; intestinal parasite
Japanese: charmed and cursed, something that bewilders, something that leads one astray, the work of demons, to be drawn in by something wicked, to be won over by something wicked
Unihan extended: poison; venom; harm; bewitch
EDRDG: rice worm; lead astray