Pox is a liquor commonly used for ceremonial purposes among the Mayans of Mexico and Central America. It is made of sugarcane and is known in Spanish as aguardiente (Maffi 1996). The word pox in Tzotzil means "medicine, cane liquor, cure." [1] Pox was commonly used in religious ceremonies and festivals in San Juan Chamula, Chiapas, but increasingly soda has been substituted for it.
Maffi, Luisa. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. June 1996, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 27–46