Nonochton is the Classical Nahuatl name for a plant whose identity is uncertain. Suggested plants include Portulaca , Pereskiopsis , [1] and Lycianthes mociniana , a plant now called tlanochtle in the local variety of modern Nahuatl spoken by highland farmers that cultivate it for its fruit. [2]
In Aztec medicine, nonochton was used as an ingredient in a remedy for pain at the heart:
For him whose heart pains him or burns, take the plant nonochton that grows near an ants’ nest, gold, electrum, teo-xihuitl,chichiltic tapachtli and tetlahuitl,[ what language is this? ] with the burned heart of a deer, and grind them up together in water; let him drink the liquor.