Latin name： Mirabilis jalapa L.

Family： Nyctaginaceae

Part Used： Root, flower

Properties： Root: taste sweet, tasteless, little cold in nature; Flower: taste little sweet, cool in nature.

Actions：Roots: clearing heat for inducing diuresis, detoxifying for promoting blood circulation; Flowers: moistening the lung and cooling blood.

Usage：Root: pyretic stranguria, whitish and turbid urine, edema, leucorrhea with red and white discharge, arthralgia and swelling, anthracia and swelling toxicity, mammary abscess, injuries from falls; Flower: empsyxis.