
Four-o'clock
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.