Las cataratas de los ojos se han de raspar y raer con la raíz que se llama en la lengua cocóztic, y de noche sacar el zumo della y echarlo en los ojos, o rasparse lo interior de los párpados con cierta yerba áspera llamada zacamalinalli, que es a manera de espartillo, y echar en continente algunas gotas del pulcre serenado, y untarse a la redonda con cierta resina o bálsamo llamado en la lengua acaúxitl. Aprovechará también beber el agua del árbol que se llama iztaccuáhuitl, que se cría en tierra caliente. Aprovechará también sangrarse y purgarse.
\nLo enramado de los ojos se ha de procurar cortar la telilla, alzándola con alguna espina, y echar ciertas gotas después en los ojos, de leche de mujer, mezclada con el zumo de la yerba que se llama chichicaquílitl, y echar también ciertas gotas del zumo de la raíz de cierta yerba nombrada iiztacquíltic, y así la deshace.
\nEl cegajoso debe se de guardar de la demasiada claridad, o del sol, del viento y del frío.
\nPara la enfermedad de los ojos añublados se han de echar
\n","citation_key":"citation_lopez_spanish_transcription","citation":{"en":["Spanish by López Austin & García Quintana 2000"],"es":["Español por López Austin & García Quintana 2000"]}},{"id":"4fab7162-23d8-40c5-ace7-5dbe24a46c43","choice":{"en":["Spanish-to-English by García Garagarza 2023"],"es":["Español-al-inglés por García Garagarza 2023"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["spanish translation"],"es":["traducción al español"]},"column":"spanish","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(García Garagarza 2023)","markdown":"The cataracts of the eyes should be rubbed and scraped off with the root called _cocoztic_ in the [Mexican] language. Extract its juice at night and put it in the eyes, or scrape the inside of the eyelids with a certain rough herb called _zacamalinalli_, which is a type of small esparto grass, immediately put in some drops of settled pulque, and smear around [the affected area] a certain resin or balsam called _acaoxitl_ in the [Mexican] language. It will also be beneficial to drink water from the tree called _iztac cuahuitl_, which grows in the hot lands. It will also be beneficial to bleed and purge oneself.\n\nFor fleshy growth over the eyes, one should try to cut the thin veil by lifting it with a thorn and then putting in the eyes certain drops made of woman’s milk mixed with the juice of the herb called _chichicaquilitl_, and also putting in some drops of the juice from the root of certain herb called _iztacquiltic_. And thus [the growth] will dissolve.\n\nA person afflicted with watery eyes[^127] must be kept away from excessive light or from the sun, wind, and cold.\n\nFor the ailment of cloudy eyes,[^128] \n\n\n[^127]: “A person . . . eyes”: _El cegajoso_; cf. the corresponding Nahuatl term _ixayauhpachihuiztli_ (flooded in tears).\n\n[^128]: That is, cataracts.","html":"The cataracts of the eyes should be rubbed and scraped off with the root called cocoztic in the [Mexican] language. Extract its juice at night and put it in the eyes, or scrape the inside of the eyelids with a certain rough herb called zacamalinalli, which is a type of small esparto grass, immediately put in some drops of settled pulque, and smear around [the affected area] a certain resin or balsam called acaoxitl in the [Mexican] language. It will also be beneficial to drink water from the tree called iztac cuahuitl, which grows in the hot lands. It will also be beneficial to bleed and purge oneself.
\nFor fleshy growth over the eyes, one should try to cut the thin veil by lifting it with a thorn and then putting in the eyes certain drops made of woman’s milk mixed with the juice of the herb called chichicaquilitl, and also putting in some drops of the juice from the root of certain herb called iztacquiltic. And thus [the growth] will dissolve.
\nA person afflicted with watery eyes1 must be kept away from excessive light or from the sun, wind, and cold.
\nFor the ailment of cloudy eyes,2
\nioan ic moquatzotzonaz, ioan mjtzmjnaz.
\nIn ocujli teixco: teixtenco nemj, anoço ixtamaçoliciviztli, ixchichiticaviliztli, ic mochichiquj in tlaneloatl côcoztic: auh in ioaltica onmochipinjz ipan cochiz, ioan mochichiquj malinaltica in tixten, chichioalaiotl, anoço iztac vctli otlaqualcauh onmochipinja, anoço acaoxitl onmalaoa in tixtenco: ioan qujtinemjz in patli itoca iztac quavitl tonaian mochioa, moçoz, mjtzmjnaz, motlanoqujliz.
\nipaio vitztica macomana in tixpeioio, motequj, moiaoaloa, in tixtelolo, chichicaqujllo, chichioalaiotl onmochipinja, anoço iiztaqujltic ineloaio onmochipinja qujpalanaltia in nacatl.
\nIxcuepoctli: ixpopoiotiliztli ixtezcaîciviztli, ixtotoliciviztli, ixmjmjquiliztli, ixpopoiotlachializtli ipaleviloca aocmo cenca mjxnamjqujz in tonalli in cecec in ehecatl.
\niztac
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"2c8282a0-7b2e-4896-894e-cb4eaff774b4","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl-to-English by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl-al-inglés por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl translation"],"es":["traducción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"And the head is patted with this [liquid], and one is bled with an obsidian blade.\n\n*Worms in the eyes*, which live in the edges of the eyelids; or crab lice in the eyelids; cataracts. [The eyelids] are rubbed with *cocoztic*[^65] root. And by night [the sap] is applied as drops during sleep. And [the interior of] the eyelids is rubbed with *malinalli.[^66] Woman’s milk or settled white maguey wine are applied in drops, or *acaoxitl[^67] [ointment] is spread on the eyelid edges. And one is to proceed to drink a medicine named *iztac quauitl*,[^68] which grows in the hot lands. One is to be bled—bled with an obsidian blade; one is to be purged.\n\n##### Fleshy growth over the eyes\n\nAs its cure,[^69] the growth over the eye is raised up with a maguey thorn; it is cut. The eyeball is [rubbed] around with drops of woman’s milk mixed with [juice] of *chichicaquilitl,[^70] or drops [from an infusion of] *iiztaquiltic*[^71] are applied. These destroy the flesh[y growth].\n\n*Squint eyes*, blindness, blindness from cataracts, sun-blindness, blinded vision. [For] their alleviation, no more is one to expose himself much in the sun, the cold, the wind.\n\n##### Opacity\n\n\n\n\n[^65]: *Côcoztic: Thalictrum hernandezii* Tauch. (Martínez, *op. cit*., p. 87). After *côcoztic*, the *Acad. Hist. MS* inserts *Auh mociaoa ỹ ça ye no yehoatl côcoztic tlanelhoatl ça ye yn iteuilotca ỹ yoaltica*.\n\n\n[^66]: *Malinalli;* a similar treatment is described by Emmart (*op. cit*., p. 222), who suggests use of an herb of the genus *Elymus*; von Gall, *op. cit*., p. 227, suggests a *Baccharis* sp. Corresponding Spanish text: *”cierta yerua aspera llamada çacamalinalli.”*\n\n\n[^67]: Sahagún (Garibay ed.), IV, p. 319: cane oil (kind unspecified).\n\n\n[^68]: *Iztac quauitl*: Emmart (*op. cit*., p. 274) suggests the *Mimosaceae*, or the *Caesalpiniaceae* family.\n\n\n[^69]: In the *Acad. Hist. MS*, the entire section following *ipayo* is crossed out and the following is substituted on the margin: *Mitzminaz. auh ye ỹ moçoz toquichtlalhoayo anoço tixtlalhoayo auh çatepan onmochichipiniz ỹ cocoztic tlanelhoatl vt Supra*.\n\n\n[^70]: *Chichicaquilitl: Carraja mexicana* or *Sonchus siliatus* (Sahagún, Garibay ed., IV, p. 333); *Mimulus glabratus* H. B. K. (Hernández, *op. cit*, II, p. 568).\n\n\n[^71]: *liztaquiltic:* perhaps identical with *iztac quilitl*.","html":"And the head is patted with this [liquid], and one is bled with an obsidian blade.
\nWorms in the eyes, which live in the edges of the eyelids; or crab lice in the eyelids; cataracts. [The eyelids] are rubbed with cocoztic1 root. And by night [the sap] is applied as drops during sleep. And [the interior of] the eyelids is rubbed with malinalli.2 Woman’s milk or settled white maguey wine are applied in drops, or *acaoxitl3 [ointment] is spread on the eyelid edges. And one is to proceed to drink a medicine named *iztac quauitl,4 which grows in the hot lands. One is to be bled—bled with an obsidian blade; one is to be purged.
\nAs its cure,5 the growth over the eye is raised up with a maguey thorn; it is cut. The eyeball is [rubbed] around with drops of woman’s milk mixed with [juice] of chichicaquilitl,6 or drops [from an infusion of] *iiztaquiltic7 are applied. These destroy the flesh[y growth].
\nSquint eyes, blindness, blindness from cataracts, sun-blindness, blinded vision. [For] their alleviation, no more is one to expose himself much in the sun, the cold, the wind.
\nCôcoztic: Thalictrum hernandezii Tauch. (Martínez, op. cit., p. 87). After côcoztic, the Acad. Hist. MS inserts Auh mociaoa ỹ ça ye no yehoatl côcoztic tlanelhoatl ça ye yn iteuilotca ỹ yoaltica.↩
Malinalli; a similar treatment is described by Emmart (op. cit., p. 222), who suggests use of an herb of the genus Elymus; von Gall, op. cit., p. 227, suggests a Baccharis sp. Corresponding Spanish text: ”cierta yerua aspera llamada çacamalinalli.”↩
Sahagún (Garibay ed.), IV, p. 319: cane oil (kind unspecified).↩
Iztac quauitl: Emmart (op. cit., p. 274) suggests the Mimosaceae, or the Caesalpiniaceae family.↩
In the Acad. Hist. MS, the entire section following ipayo is crossed out and the following is substituted on the margin: Mitzminaz. auh ye ỹ moçoz toquichtlalhoayo anoço tixtlalhoayo auh çatepan onmochichipiniz ỹ cocoztic tlanelhoatl vt Supra.↩
Chichicaquilitl: Carraja mexicana or Sonchus siliatus (Sahagún, Garibay ed., IV, p. 333); Mimulus glabratus H. B. K. (Hernández, op. cit, II, p. 568).↩
liztaquiltic: perhaps identical with iztac quilitl.↩