to concoct medicines for the purpose of curing/healing
Orthographic Variants:
pachichiua
IPAspelling:
pɑhtʃihtʃiːwɑ
Alonso de Molina:
pachichiua. ni. (pret. onipachichiuh.) componer medicinas para curar. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 78v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.