Principal English Translation:
a yellow tomato plant; with medicinal value (dissipates wind, provokes urine, relieves asthma, relieves a stomach ache, and can dry up milk in the breasts)
(Valley of Mexico, 1570–1587)
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), 116.
Attestations from sources in English:
Coztómatl = "yellow tomato, has a think, long, white root filled with shoots. It has tawny stalks and leaves like a nightshade's, to which species [it belongs], and a yellow flower, from which the name comes." (Central Mexico, 1571–1615)
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), 116.