poztecpatli.

Headword: 
poztecpatli.
Principal English Translation: 

a plant used in treating fractures (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
poztecpahtli
IPAspelling: 
postekpɑhtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

POZTECPAH-TLI plant used in treating fractures / nombre de dos plantas medicinales (R), bejuco, huesero (X) [(1)Rp.123]- See POZTEQU(I), PAH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 205.

Attestations from sources in English: 

"...herb...grows in rocky places and in the rough areas of the wooded hills of Oaxaca province...Crushed and drunk in the quantity of a dram, the leaves help the nerves and tendons and the stiffness of lockjaw..."
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), 132.

themes: 
Plants, Trees, Flora