tlalmizquitl.

Headword: 
tlalmizquitl.
Principal English Translation: 

the root of this plant was used in a medicine for treating a skin ailment around the mouth

Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 37 [24v.].

Attestations from sources in English: 

The Florentine Codex, Book 11, folio 15v, has an illustration of this plant and a description, saying how it grows in the fields and in the mountains, the leaves are "useless," but the single, yellow root is ground for an infusion that is to be drunk when fasting and for people who are feverish and have diarrhea. (paraphrasing, SW)
Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 150v. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/150v . Accessed 21 November 2025.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

la raíz de esta planta se usaba en un medicamento hecho para combatir la sarna de la boca
Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 37 [24v.].

themes: 
Health, Sickness, Wellness, Medicine
Plants, Trees, Flora