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"Temécatl of Yauhtepec" was also called chichicpatli, or "bitter medicine." Believed to have been beneficial for treating indigestion and stomach aches, and for syphilis ("the French disease"). Could also "provoke urine" and "get rid of flatulence."
In 1584, a man named Joseph Chicon of Tlachco, Puebla, was accused by an estranged brother-in-law of helping "divine and prognosticate with temecatl in many places" and "during Chicon's "'auguries' temecatl was being called "coaxoxohuic" (literally 'serpent green')."
A brew made from the dried seed of this plant in 1584 in the area of Tlaxcala was said to have allowed a man to address an entity who instructed him on healing treatments, in a way that was similar to the use of the hallucinogen called ololiuhqui.