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tzocuilpatli.

Headword: 
tzocuilpatli.
Principal English Translation: 

a certain medicinal root (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzocuilpahtli
IPAspelling: 
tsohkwilpɑhtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tzocuilpatli. cierta rayz medicinal.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 153r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

The herb called tzocuilpátli has leaves resembling those of the basil, only much smaller and serrate, but profoundly rough . . . it restores lost mobility.
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), 138.

ynic pati moço toyac yoã tzocuilpatli toyacac moteca = it is cured by drawing blood from the nose and placing tzocuilpatli in the nose (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 287.

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