I:n  xiwtsi:ntli, yewa teh i:to:ka temini:xka:tsi:n. Pero 'pa i:kuwyo, pa we:iya teh, seki, wa:n seki pitentsi:n. I:wa:n i:n temini:xka:tsi:n, yewa i:kuwyo, komo ke:n kuhxio:tl teh, tikitas. Pero ... pero xihkón pa:mpa i:tla:kihlo teh, i:xiwyo yewa san teyewaltsitsi:nteh teh, pa:mpa pestik. Pa mlá:k kwaltsi:n tsotsotlaka. Yo i:n temini:ska:tsi:n, xnikelna:miki deke no: kipia i:xo:chio pero nik... nikitilia:ni i:tla:kihlo yewa ki:sa boboli:tas. Yewa ki:sa boboli:tas. I:wa:n i:n temini:xka:tsi:n, yewa no:..., no: xnikmatiya teh pero se: to:nahli o:ne:chihlikeh i:ka reme:dioh. Tikitas ke:n no:mi:hlan o:niah dyá de p' repente teh peni:tas nimaxilih 'ka mache:teh sola kas tlateki, ya o:te:ch... o:... o:nik... o:pe:w yeski:sa teh sam peni:tas nimaxilih komo kipia fi:loh. Dyá, o:ne:chihlih nosuwa:w, kitowa ba, "Ne:nkah se: temini:xka:tsi:n ma 'tla:li:tin, ya xo:'neltokak pero yewa o:mpa:tilih se: tlake:ntli de, de yestli. Kitowa yewa kitelti:s. Ya xo:'neltokak komo xkaman nikitaya.

This little plant, well it's called temini:xka:tsi:n. But its trunk and branches, they get big y'know, some of them, and some are small. And this temini:xka:tsi:n, its trunk and branches, you see them and they're like the cuajiote y'know. But ... but it's not like that, well, because of its fruit, and its leaves they are small and round, y'know, and because they are smooth. They really shine. This temini:ska:tsi:n, I can't remember if it also has flowers, but I've... I've seen the fruit on it, they are round. They come out as little balls. And this temini:xka:tsi:n, it also... I didn't know it, but well, one day they told me that it was a cure. You know, I went to my corn field one day and suddenly I cut myself slightly with a machete, just because it had a real sharp edge, and it.... I....  blood started coming out y'know, just because I hit myself lightly because it was really sharp. And then my wife said to me, she says well, "There is a temini:xka:tsi:n, let's go put it (the sap) on it. And I didn't believe it. But I got a piece of cloth soaked in blood and she said that it would stop it (the bleeding). And I didn't believe it because I had never seen it.

Pero ke:mah, de kwa:k o:nikitak i:ka reme:dioh teh, para kea:man itlah tli:non timotsontekis, noso tla: tli:non kanah pos kitla:lia, ki... kiteltia. Newa hmastoya reme:dioh pero so:lame:nteh deke mitsasis itlah tli:non ma:nchah istá:k, yewa htla:lili:s i:a:yo, pos kon ke:mah teh, no: kiteltia. Pero no: bwe:noh tlakah reme:dioh deke kanah mitskoko:s wa:n timotla:lili:s wa:n yeski:stok no: kite:ntsakwa teh! No: kitsakwa yewa reme:dioh i:n temini:xka:tsi:n. 

But it was true, then I saw that it was a remedy y'know, for anything like if you cut yourself with, or anywhere, then they spread it on, it... it stops it. I knew that it was used as a cure but only if you got some white spots, you put its sap on it, that's how it works y'know, it also stops it. But indeed I've found out that it is also a good cure if you hurt somewhere and you put it on, and blood is coming out, it also closes it (the wound) up! This cure from the temini:xka:tsi:n also closes it up.

Wa:n tocha:n pwes asta yo:t... yo:tmamankeh teh, o:me, pa:mpa kwa:k itlah tli:non se:, y o bwe:noh asta tli:n manchi:tah, timotla:lilian. Yewa ke:n de reme:dioh teh.

And at our house we've even.... planted some, y'know, two, because when something, or OK, when some spot (shows up on the skin) we put it on. It's like a cure y'know.

[Ke:non manchi:tah?]

Teh kea:man deke mitsasis pi:ntoh tikihlian 'pa moma o pa mokxi kanah. Ya htla:lili:s ya kipo:polowa.

Y'know, like if you get pinto (note: a skin disease characterized by white splotches of skin) as they call it, on your hand or your foot, or somewhere. They you put it on, it gets rid of it.

[Timotla:lili:s i: ... ?]

... i:a:yo! Tikma:postekis achitsi:n ihkí:n, xta tlakotsi:n ya ki:sa i:a:yo. Kanah xki:sa, pero kanah seki mlá:k we:i ki:sa ya timotla:lili:s ka:n me:ro ki:sa m... ki:s... s... ke:tla tikpia pi:ntoh noso itlah tli:non. Kon, kiki:xtia.

... its sap. You snap it's branch a little like this, see? A little piece and its sap comes out. In some it doesn't come out, but in some a real lot comes out and you put it on where you have ... you have ... like pinto or something. Like that, it gets rid of it.