A temazcal ( of the nahuatl temazcalli, House where sweat, temaz, sweat, and calli, House ) a steam bath used in traditional medicine and everyday life of the villages in the center of Mexico.estos is bathrooms, they have been used by different indigenous cultures of Mesoamerica and North America for medicinal purposes of detoxification through perspiration by infusions of herbs. Maya is zumpul-che and in Mixtec, nihi.