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motlehuia.

Headword: 
motlehuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to have a fever; to be burning hot
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 159.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents motlehuia in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Motlevia: conj chichipili inelhoaio, chichicaqujlitl, tececec, xocoatl = Fever: One drinks [an infusion of the root of] chichipilli, [with] alum [and] acid water. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 159.

themes: 
Health, Sickness, Wellness, Medicine