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tecopalli.

Headword: 
tecopalli.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of incense, very fine; the same as tepecopalli

(central Mexico, late sixteenth century; originally from Sahagún in 1574, a document that Chimalpahin copied)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 147, citing Clavijero and Santamaría

Attestations from sources in English: 

The tecopalli (Stone Copal, or Stone Incense) is also an herb that, when made into a powder and mixed with the root of nanahuapatli, could be applied to sores and swelling associated with venereal disease
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), 147.

themes: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense