tepeyauhtli.

When "its juice is instilled into one's eyes, it cures [their] indispositions; and when it is applied to the head, it provokes menstruation and urine and expels from the tract of the kidneys and bladder all that might be able to impeded good and free issue and operation." Also, "one takes its powder in the cocoa drink against coughing and against coldness in the chest. They often fumigate lodgings with this herb, throwing it onto braziers to perfume bad air and stench, especially that which the corrupt breath of sick persons usually causes." (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), 136.