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Globally, India is the largest producer of medicinal herbs used for enormous aliments in day to day practise. In the traditional medicinal systems, the whole plant is used as the alternative and complementary therapy.1 Medicinal plants have been the mainstream of traditional herbal medicines worldwide since the antiquity to date.2 About 1/4rth of the pharmaceutical industries have structural modifications of natural products for the advancement of drug discovery and development. The non-nutrient compounds or the bioactive constituents referred to as "phytochemicals” are responsible against various microbial infections and hence the study of natural products is known as “Phytochemistry”.3 Even, the pharmacological activity of the crude extract is determined by the nature of phyto constituents present in the plant species and these compounds are responsible for the potential activity are known as “Secondary metabolites” like alkaloids, flavonoids, isoprenoids, saponins exerts antioxidant, steroidal activity, modulation of hormones and detoxification of enzymes and anti-cancer properties. Hence, plants are the major source of mankind throughout the history.4,5 With the rise in the clinical toxicity, the use of ayurvedic formulation is enhancing significantly over the decade.6 The standardization of botanicals for the specific markers was confirmed with the fingerprinting analysis. Ayurveda is considered as “Mother of healing”, is the integral part of the traditional medicine claims to aid the various metabolic and chronic disorders by enhances the longevity.7