Ololiuhqui

The most common drugs used by the paini were peyote and ololiuhqui, a very powerful seed that, according to Ruiz de Alarcón, "when drunk, deprives men of judgment." ❋ Unknown (2008)

The seeds of the _ololiuhqui_ appear to have been employed externally. ❋ Daniel Garrison Brinton (1868)

Of the two plants mentioned, the _ololiuhqui_ and the _peyotl_, the former was considered the more potent in spiritual virtues. ❋ Daniel Garrison Brinton (1868)

Nahuatl the _ololiuhqui_ were in high esteem for this purpose. ❋ Daniel Garrison Brinton (1868)

_ I have loved God with all my heart; but sometimes I have believed in dreams, and also I have believed in the sacred herbs, the _peyotl_, and the _ololiuhqui_; and in other such things ❋ Daniel Garrison Brinton (1868)

Náhuatl: Uto-Aztecan language spoken by native Mexicans who, in preconquest era, inhabited the central Valley of Mexico and points southeast, as far as Guatemala. neyolmelahualiztli: Nahuas 'rite of confession, or "straightening one's heart," a practice that restored internal equilibrium. ololiuhqui: various hallucinogenic plants, among them Rivea corymbosa. partera: midwife. pasmo: respiratory illness. peste: pestilence. pintura de castas: colonial-era paintings showing different racial mixes of people. plethora: in humoral medicine, the condition of too much blood, resulting in an imbalance of the humors. ❋ Unknown (2008)

13 The knotting and unknotting of cords, looking for signs in the water, the tossing of maize kernels, the measuring of the left forearm with the right palm, and the ingestion of hallucinogenics, such as peyote or ololiuhqui were all important tools in the process of diagnosis and prognosis. 14 Combined with special incantations and orations these types of actions employed throughout the therapeutic process were the standard ways in which the tícitl worked. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“This was also employed by them as a remedy in various diseases, and the soothing influence of the tobacco and the _ololiuhqui_ was attributed by them to divine agency. ❋ Daniel Garrison Brinton (1868)