Temazcal (English spelling)

Japanese: テマスカル（英語表記）temazcal

It is a type of bread oven-like steaming hut made mainly of adobe (sun-dried bricks), and comes from the Nahuatl word temazcalli. This custom overlapped with the habitations of Uto-Aztec peoples, and remains of temascals have been found in ruins from the Toltec culture onwards in the central Mexican highlands and south. They were used to soothe and restore newborns and pregnant women, to treat rheumatism, asthma, indigestion and other illnesses caused by the cold, and to treat bruises and injuries, as well as during religious ceremonies and festivals to purify impurities.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

おもにアドベ(日乾煉瓦)で作られたパン焼窯状の蒸しぶろ小屋であり，ナワ語のテマスカリtemazcalliに由来する。この習慣はユト･アステカ語系の諸族の居住域と重なって分布し，メキシコ中央高原以南では，トルテカ文化期以降の遺跡にテマスカルの遺構が発見されている。新生児や妊産婦の安静，回復，リウマチ，喘息（ぜんそく），消化不良など寒冷に由来する病気や打撲外傷の治療のために用いられたほか，宗教的儀礼や祝祭に際しても，けがれを払うために利用された。

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