Mixitl (Datura Inoxia)
Datura inoxia
About Mixitl (Datura Inoxia)
Mixitl (Datura Inoxia) (Datura inoxia) is a herb used in the Aztec & Mesoamerican Medicine tradition to help with Pain, Ceremonial Use, Asthma, and Wound Healing, among 1 other condition it addresses. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Datura innoxia (often spelled inoxia), known as pricklyburr, recurved thorn-apple, downy thorn-apple, Indian-apple, lovache, moonflower, nacazcul, toloatzin, toloaxihuitl, tolguache or toloache, is a species of flowering plant in the family Solanaceae. It is more rarely called sacred datura, a common name which is applied more often to the closely related Datura wrightii. It is native to the Southwestern United States, Central and South America, and introduced in Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe. The scientific name is...
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist