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A-quahuitl

Morphemes:

  • Atl/water
  • Quahuitl/tree or wood

Subchapter 6d

For face scabs or freckles. To heal a scabby face, take the juice of crushed tlal-quequetzal, a-quahuitl and eca-patli in water of an acid savor, adding pigeons’ excrement, as a wash.
https://archive.org/details/aztec-herbal-of-1552/page/39

Para costras o pecas en la cara. Para curar una cara con costras, se toma el jugo de tlal-quequetzal, a-quahuitl y eca-patli machacados en agua de sabor ácido, añadiendo excremento de paloma, como lavado.

Subchapter 9g

For ringworm and tetter. For one laboring with this scaly disease, let there be ground together and set over coals the bark of the cherry, of the incense bearing quauh-xiyotl tree, the apple, the flowers of the topozan and cacalo-xochitl, oak roots, cypress nuts, leaves of the plants tlatlanquaye, quauh-yayahual, the herbs tepe-chian, coyo-xihuitl, a-quahuitl, cedar nuts and leaves; with these when heated let him bathe himself, and the affected part be rubbed with the burned pine, with which, and all the above, let him be rubbed.
https://archive.org/details/aztec-herbal-of-1552/page/81

Para tiña y sarna. Para quien sufre de esta enfermedad escamosa, se deben moler juntos y poner sobre brasas la corteza del cerezo, del árbol quauh-xiyotl que produce incienso, del manzano, las flores del topozan y cacalo-xochitl, raíces de roble, nueces de ciprés, hojas de las plantas tlatlanquaye, quauh-yayahual, las hierbas tepe-chian, coyo-xihuitl, a-quahuitl, nueces y hojas de cedro; con esto, una vez caliente, debe bañarse, y la parte afectada frotarse con pino quemado, con el cual y todo lo anterior, debe ser frotado.

Subchapter 9i

Skin eruptions. The patient should first have the part affected bathed with urine; then let a plaster be applied made from tlaquilin shoots, tlatlanquaye, the quetzal-ylin tree, the bark and leaves of the a-quahuitl crushed in water.
https://archive.org/details/aztec-herbal-of-1552/page/83

Erupciones cutáneas. El paciente debe primero tener la parte afectada bañada con orina; luego se debe aplicar un emplasto hecho de brotes de tlaquilin, tlatlanquaye, el árbol quetzal-ylin, la corteza y hojas del a-quahuitl triturados en agua.

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Leaf traces by: Lachlann Simms, Acadia University, Canada