In The Mad Monk, when the Duke of Qi treated persons with tuberculosis, he would mutter, "Pest, pest, with your form like a bee, you burrow into the bone marrow, devouring blood.
《濟公傳奇錄》中，濟公在為人治癆病時，口中還念念有詞：「癆蟲癆蟲，身似蜜蜂，鑽入骨髓，食人血濃。