also known as "the hot herb from Tototepec;" this was a medicinal herb believed capable of curing worms in the human body, of expelling wind, comforting the stomach and chest, provoking menstruation and urination, curing dropsy, and taking care of "humors" from the "French disease" (syphilis)
The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández, ed. Simon Varey, transl. Rafael Chabrán, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, and Simon Varey (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), 141.
a personal name; the name of a lord said to have descended from lords of Teotihuacan; his son was Mamalitzin, who lived in the time of the Spanish invasion and occupation
Pedro Carrasco, "Sucesión y alianzas matrimoniales en la disnastía Teotihuacana," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 235–241, see p. 239.
turquoise hair, turqoise diadem (see attestations, Olko); xihuitzontli = a turquoise headdress Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 194.
a turquoise nose ornament (central Mexico, sixteenth century) Thelma Sullivan, "Tlatoani and tlatocayotl in the Sahagún manuscripts," Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl 14 (1980), 225–238. See esp. p. 233.
to cover something (such as the ground) with branches, flowers, or aromatic herbs, perhaps as part of a festival (see Molina and definitions of enramar)