Areas such as the ears, nose, tongue, lips, or genitals could also be pierced to induce bleeding for the ceremonies.
Some specific cures are very interesting, especially that of a toothache.
This treatment included crumbling soot from cooking stones, wrapping it with cotton wool, and applying it to the broken tooth. An alternative to this was to take the tooth of a crocodile, grate it with fishskin and wrap in it cotton wool, and apply it to a throbbing tooth to cease the pain. There is an iguana that is yellow beneath the throat. Pierce its mouth, tie it up and burn it alive on a flat plate until it is reduced to ashes. These ashes of the iguana you are to anoint.