Badianus manuscript (Aztec herbal)
Códice de la Cruz-Badiano (herbolaria mexica)
- Date
- 1552 · confidence high
- Place
- Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, Mexico City, Mexico
- Credited to
- Martín de la Cruz (Nahua physician) and Juan Badiano (Xochimilca translator)
- People
- 👤 Juan Badiano y Martín de la Cruz1484–
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
The first medical treatise written in the Americas, illustrating 185 plants and their curative uses according to Nahua medicine. It preserves indigenous pharmacopoeia predating the conquest.
Libellus de medicinalibus Indorum herbis, returned to Mexico by the Vatican in 1990.
What it led to
- European knowledge of American medicinal flora
- modern ethnobotany