Tepezcohuite or Tepescohuite is traditionally known as "tree skin".
Toast of Tepezcohuite bark was used by the Mayans in the treatment of skin lesions, and there is still employed by their particular efficacy in the treatment of burns. Its anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, anesthetic and regenerative skin earned him the nickname 'the miracle'.

Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Plants
Division:
Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Fabales Family
: Mimosoidae - Mimosaceae
Species: Acacia tenuifolia (L) Willd

Description:
thorny tree, woody stem of about 8 m high and 10 to 15 cm. in diameter, slightly pubescent, with leaves 10 to 25 cm. alternate long or complex of 20 to 40 chips and linear oblong, almost sessile or petiole 1 to 2.5 cm. long, the rachis sometimes thorny. Stipules linear, 4 to 8 mm. long. White flowers small, sessile, in long dense spikes of 5 to 8 cm. and were shaped pods oblong, 7 cm. wide. Campanula Calyx almost as big as the corolla, puberulento; corolla 1.5 to 2 mm long. Linear oblong fruit. In the wild, growing in 4 to 6 years without fertilizing.

Distribution:
originally from Mexico. What we found in Chiapas state in depression Cintalapa Central Valley and the area northwest of the coastal plain of the Pacific. In addition to a small part of the Northwest region of Guatemala.

Habitat:
In warm weather between 50 and 600 meters above sea level. Associated with tropical deciduous forest and scrub xerophilous, and in pasture, which is regarded as climax vegetation.

A little history:
The Maya have always been interested in research and application of the plants that populate the vast geography of Mexico, using a food and for other purposes medicinal or cosmetic. Within the wide range of natural products produced by Mexico in the world today, we found a plant, which by their shape and location, in pre-Hispanic times was called "Tepezcohuite, name roots of nahuatl according to the official experts, tepezcuahuitl comes from the word, meaning "hill of the tree that bleeds." This shrub was used by the Maya for more than 10 centuries as a cure for skin diseases.

Tepezcohuite tostado was used by the Maya to the tenth century for the treatment of superficial lesions in the skin. Today is used as it has a powerful cellular regenerator. His brilliance as a civilization coincides with the peak of his classical period (250-900 AD), so when the Spanish navigator Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba arrived in 1517 the coast of the Yucatan peninsula, found only a shadow of its former glory. However the "footprint" Maya is still very clearly in many parts Mesoamerican, and their customs, habits and traditions we can learn and benefit studies. The
Tepezcohuite had no secrets to the Maya and since time immemorial been used to treat skin lesions. The application of the dust crust on his wounds and burns, relieve pain especially for them and greatly accelerated their recovery, avoiding even the appearance of scars.

regenerative properties of the skin, they think those Mayans, it was a sacred tree. Therefore, the inherited traditions of those original Americans relative effects "magic" of Tepezcohuite in the treatment of ulcers, wounds and burns of various kinds. Ancestral knowledge that is not being forgotten, and came to us thanks to the popular traditions.

modern science and recent research confirms the excellent properties of this natural product. So we can say that the Tepezcohuite possesses bacteriostatic qualities, antiseptic, analgesic, healing and regenerating.

In 1984, in a factory there was an explosion, leaving 500 people with severe burns. Dr. Leon Roque who was familiar with the plant Tepezcohuite, wanted to check the healing capacity of the plant by applying it to the people burned. Were applied powder from the bark of Tepezcohuite as a cure for skin burn. With that test checked the capacity of anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, anesthetic and regenerator has the floor.

During the earthquake in Mexico was used in 85 and was considered a miracle in action Tepezcohuite Tlalnepantla hospitals.

And because these capacities, Tepezcohuite has been widely used in pharmacology and cosmetics as an agent of rejuvenating the skin, mixed with other products such as ginseng, is a more effective treatment. To this end have developed products such as creams, soaps, shampoos and lotions.
For all these reasons and more, it is not surprising that the Mayans believed that the plant Tepezcohuite was a "miracle."