molido; pero si fuere niño, beberlo ha sin chile. E beberá el agua de la corteza de un árbol que se llama iztaccuáhuitl, el cual árbol se da y cría en el pueblo de Coatitlan, cociéndose con un poco de cacao molido. Y si esto no bastare para estancar la correncia y cámaras, cocerse ha en cantidad como tres onzas o cuatro de axin, y echalle han de una melecina al enfermo. O beber esta agua del axin, muy bien cocida; y si no la quisiere beber, beberá a lo menos el caldo de una gallina.
\nLos lobanillos. Para las hinchazones de las rodillas será necesario que se punce, y así saldrá la sangraza o aguadija. Y ponerse ha después una bilma hecha de la hoja molida de cierta yerba que se llama toloa.
\nPara las hinchazones de los pies será bueno punzarse como está dicho, y echarse una bilma de ocotzote, mezclado con los polvos de unos granillos o semilla de la yerba nombrada coatlxoxouhqui.
\nLos humores de los pies. El atormecimiento perpetuo de los pies curarse ha cociéndose el axenso desta tierra, y con el agua y un paño empapar el pie estando caliente el agua. O cocer la yerba llamada tlatlancuaxíhuitl, y lavarse con el agua della el pie. O untar los pies con el axin mezclado con los polvos de las ortigas.
\nAcontece taparse el caño de la oriña por la mala digestión del estómago, y por algunas materias gruesas que tapan el caño; y al
\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":"4528e716-a860-4545-add2-a17b12fd68d3","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":"But if [the sick person] is a child, he should drink it without chile. And he will drink the water [infusion] of the bark of a tree called _iztac cuahuitl_—a tree that grows and is cultivated in the town of Coatitlan—boiling it with a little bit of ground cacao. And if this should prove insufficient to stop the runs and the diarrhea, one should boil an amount of about three or four ounces of _axin_ and give it as a medicine to the sick person. Or else drink the water [infusion] of the _axin_, boiled very thoroughly. And if [the patient] should refuse to drink it, he will at least drink some chicken broth.\n\n##### Swellings[^143]\n\nFor the swelling of the knees, it will be necessary to lance it, and thus the bloody liquid will come out. And then one should apply a poultice made of the ground leaf of a certain herb called _toloa_.\n\nFor the swelling of the feet, it will be good to lance it as mentioned and apply a poultice of _ocotzote_ mixed with the powder made from some little grains or seeds of the herb called _coatl xoxouhqui_.\n\n##### Humors of the feet[^144]\n\nPersistent numbness in the feet should be cured by boiling native wormwood and soaking the foot with a cloth soaked in this water while the water infusion is hot. Or boil the herb called _tlatlancuaxihuitl_ and wash the foot with this water. Or else smear the feet with _axin_ mixed with powder made from nettles.\n\nIt [sometimes] happens that the urinary tract gets blocked because of stomach indigestion and because of some thick matter blocking the tract. And they \n\n\n[^143]: “Swellings”: _los lobanillos_; Nahuatl: _tlanquaalaviztli _(knee swelling).\n\n[^144]: “Humors of the feet”: _Los humores de los pies_; cf. the Nahuatl equivalent _xoteoconahuiliztli_ (edema of the feet). See A&D, bk. 10, 158n17.","html":"But if [the sick person] is a child, he should drink it without chile. And he will drink the water [infusion] of the bark of a tree called iztac cuahuitl—a tree that grows and is cultivated in the town of Coatitlan—boiling it with a little bit of ground cacao. And if this should prove insufficient to stop the runs and the diarrhea, one should boil an amount of about three or four ounces of axin and give it as a medicine to the sick person. Or else drink the water [infusion] of the axin, boiled very thoroughly. And if [the patient] should refuse to drink it, he will at least drink some chicken broth.
\nFor the swelling of the knees, it will be necessary to lance it, and thus the bloody liquid will come out. And then one should apply a poultice made of the ground leaf of a certain herb called toloa.
\nFor the swelling of the feet, it will be good to lance it as mentioned and apply a poultice of ocotzote mixed with the powder made from some little grains or seeds of the herb called coatl xoxouhqui.
\nPersistent numbness in the feet should be cured by boiling native wormwood and soaking the foot with a cloth soaked in this water while the water infusion is hot. Or boil the herb called tlatlancuaxihuitl and wash the foot with this water. Or else smear the feet with axin mixed with powder made from nettles.
\nIt [sometimes] happens that the urinary tract gets blocked because of stomach indigestion and because of some thick matter blocking the tract. And they
\n[caca]oatl ipan tzoionj, no inamjc in in tlâelli. Auh intla çan njman aoc tle vel qujtzaqua, in apitzalli, aço cemolotl vnmoquaqualatza in axi, itlampa momaca, intla uel qujz, cequj conjz: auh intlaca oc vel quj, iehoatl conjz in totolaiotl, in ixiotl: inin no inamjc in tlailli.
\nanoço motzopinja, in oalqujça tzonqualactli, pani ic mopotonja, toloa ixiuhio, çan ipan qualli.
\nmjtzaoavia, ic mopotonja, in coatl xoxouhquj, mocotzovia
\nin cepoa, in aocmo mjmati, motzoionja in iztauhiatl, ic motzôtzona, ic mopaca quezqujpa, anoço iehoatl motzoionja, ic mopaca in iicxi, in jtoca tlatlanquaiexivitl tepuztlan mochioa, anoço axtica moçaz, tzitzicazio.
\naço toquichio techpoloa, aço cujtlapalanjliztli, aço tocujtlatetemallo in techpoloa, in tlein qujtetzaqua, in taxix, in tonemana[vil,]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"8ddfd309-3243-4142-a1c4-36e8b55715df","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":"in chocolate. This [medicine] is also a remedy for a [bloody] flux. And if nothing else can stop the diarrhea, perhaps a measure of *axin* is boiled; it is given as an enema. If they may be able to drink it, some will drink it, but if one cannot drink it, he is to drink the surface scum of hen broth. This [is] also a remedy for a [bloody] flux.\n\n*Tumors*: they are cut.[^15]\n\n##### Knee swelling\n\nPerhaps it is lanced. When the humor comes out a poultice of [powdered] *toloa* foliage is placed on top. [This helps] a little.\n\n##### Leg swelling\n\nIt is pricked with an obsidian point. A poultice of [powdered] *coatl xoxouhqui*[^16] [seeds] mixed with pine resin is applied.\n\n##### Humors of the feet[^17]:\n\n##### Benumbed feet\n\nIf [the feet] go to sleep, if there is no improvement, wormwood is cooked;[^18] [the feet] are rubbed with it, washed with it, several times. Or [the herb] named *tlatlanquayexiuitl*,[^19] which grows in Tepoztlan, is cooked; with it one’s legs are washed. Or they are anointed with *axin* [mixed with powdered] *tzitzicaztli*.[^20]\n\n##### Urinary obstruction\n\nPerchance our semen injures us, perchance indigestion or large lumps of foreign matter[^21]—whatever stops our urine, \n\n\n\n\n[^15]: The *Acad. Hist. MS* notes marginally, instead of *motequi; çã no yuh pati in yuh pati coatetl no moxotla auh çã no yuhqui textli oalmoquiztia*—it is cured as a cyst is cured; it is also incised. In the same way the core is forced out.\n\n\n[^16]: *Coatl xoxouhqui:* desc. in *Florentine Codex,* Book XI, fol. 129*v*—*Ay vna ierva que se llama coatl xoxouhquj, y crian vna semilla que se llama ololiuhquj, o coatl xoxouhqui.* The identification of *ololiuhqui* is doubtful. *Datura ceratocaula, Ipomoea sadaefolia* Choisy, and *Rivea corymbosa* have been suggested. See Martínez *op. cit*., pp. 508*sqq*.\n\n\n[^17]: Cf. *infra,* “Humors of the feet”—”Xoteuconaviliztli.” In the *Acad. Hist. MS*, a marginal addition reads: *ypayo totonqui axixtli yc mopaca auh yn omopac nimã õmotetemilia ỹ coxõqui tlatlauhcapatli ỹ vncã cocoyõtica auh ye nappa anoço ye macuilpa õmotema ỹ patli ỹ omoteneuh nimã oc ceppa axixtica mopaca: auh yn omopac nimã ye yc mopotonia ocutzotica moneloa yn çan ye no yehoatl patli omoteneuh çã yccẽ yc oalnacatemi yc pati*—[as] its cure they are washed in hot urine, and, when washed, then covered with ground *tlatlauhcapatli [*Geranium carolinianum*]* there where they are split open. And four or five times they are bathed with the medicine mentioned. Then once more they are washed in urine. And when washed, then they are poulticed with pine resin mixed with the same medicine mentioned. Later by these means the flesh grows back and is cured.\n\nThe treatment just related appears to fit *xoteteçonauiliztli* (splits, cracks in the feet) rather than *xoteconauiztli.* Corresponding Spanish text: *”Los humores de los pies.”*\n\n[^18]: The *Acad. Hist. MS* adds: *mochi mocẽneloa ỹ tepopotl ytzin anoço picietl*.\n\n\n[^19]: *Tlatlanquaiexiuitl: Iresine calea* (Ibáñez) Standl. (Standley, *op. cit*., Pt. 1, p. 259; see also Emmart, *op. cit*., p. 241).\n\n\n[^20]: **Acad. Hist. MS:* in place of *tzitzicaio,* a marginal correction reads: *colotzitzicayo auh ỹtlacamo quimopachiuia mitzminaz.*\n\n\n[^21]: *Ibid.:* for *cujtlapalanjliztli, aço tocujtlatetemallo,* a correction substitutes *tlaoaquiliztli ỹ anoço tlahelli quitlaztinemi.*","html":"in chocolate. This [medicine] is also a remedy for a [bloody] flux. And if nothing else can stop the diarrhea, perhaps a measure of axin is boiled; it is given as an enema. If they may be able to drink it, some will drink it, but if one cannot drink it, he is to drink the surface scum of hen broth. This [is] also a remedy for a [bloody] flux.
\nTumors: they are cut.1
\nPerhaps it is lanced. When the humor comes out a poultice of [powdered] toloa foliage is placed on top. [This helps] a little.
\nIt is pricked with an obsidian point. A poultice of [powdered] coatl xoxouhqui2 [seeds] mixed with pine resin is applied.
\nIf [the feet] go to sleep, if there is no improvement, wormwood is cooked;4 [the feet] are rubbed with it, washed with it, several times. Or [the herb] named tlatlanquayexiuitl,5 which grows in Tepoztlan, is cooked; with it one’s legs are washed. Or they are anointed with axin [mixed with powdered] tzitzicaztli.6
\nPerchance our semen injures us, perchance indigestion or large lumps of foreign matter7—whatever stops our urine,
\nThe treatment just related appears to fit xoteteçonauiliztli (splits, cracks in the feet) rather than xoteconauiztli. Corresponding Spanish text: ”Los humores de los pies.”
\nThe Acad. Hist. MS notes marginally, instead of motequi; çã no yuh pati in yuh pati coatetl no moxotla auh çã no yuhqui textli oalmoquiztia—it is cured as a cyst is cured; it is also incised. In the same way the core is forced out.↩
Coatl xoxouhqui: desc. in Florentine Codex, Book XI, fol. 129v—Ay vna ierva que se llama coatl xoxouhquj, y crian vna semilla que se llama ololiuhquj, o coatl xoxouhqui. The identification of ololiuhqui is doubtful. Datura ceratocaula, Ipomoea sadaefolia Choisy, and Rivea corymbosa have been suggested. See Martínez op. cit., pp. 508sqq.↩
Cf. infra, “Humors of the feet”—”Xoteuconaviliztli.” In the Acad. Hist. MS, a marginal addition reads: ypayo totonqui axixtli yc mopaca auh yn omopac nimã õmotetemilia ỹ coxõqui tlatlauhcapatli ỹ vncã cocoyõtica auh ye nappa anoço ye macuilpa õmotema ỹ patli ỹ omoteneuh nimã oc ceppa axixtica mopaca: auh yn omopac nimã ye yc mopotonia ocutzotica moneloa yn çan ye no yehoatl patli omoteneuh çã yccẽ yc oalnacatemi yc pati—[as] its cure they are washed in hot urine, and, when washed, then covered with ground tlatlauhcapatli [Geranium carolinianum] there where they are split open. And four or five times they are bathed with the medicine mentioned. Then once more they are washed in urine. And when washed, then they are poulticed with pine resin mixed with the same medicine mentioned. Later by these means the flesh grows back and is cured.↩
The Acad. Hist. MS adds: mochi mocẽneloa ỹ tepopotl ytzin anoço picietl.↩
Tlatlanquaiexiuitl: Iresine calea (Ibáñez) Standl. (Standley, op. cit., Pt. 1, p. 259; see also Emmart, op. cit., p. 241).↩
**Acad. Hist. MS:* in place of tzitzicaio, a marginal correction reads: colotzitzicayo auh ỹtlacamo quimopachiuia mitzminaz.↩
Ibid.: for cujtlapalanjliztli, aço tocujtlatetemallo, a correction substitutes tlaoaquiliztli ỹ anoço tlahelli quitlaztinemi.↩