Achyranthes aspera is an important medicinal herb that grows as a weed across Nepal's tropical region. It is a member of the amaranthaceae family. Dattiwan in Nepali, Apamarg in Sanskrit, prickly chaff flower in English, and Naayuruvi in Tamil are all names for this plant. Because of their safety and effectiveness, medicinal plants are used to treat a variety of ailments. Though practically all of its parts are employed in ancient systems of medicine, the seeds, roots, and shoots are the most essential medicinal elements. Carbohydrates, protein, glycosides, alkaloids, tannins, saponins, flavonoids, lignin, and other chemical components are important. According to the review, a large number of phytochemical compounds have been identified from the plant, which include antiperiodic, diuretic, purgative, laxative, antiasthmatic, hepatoprotective, anti-allergic, and other essential therapeutic characteristics. The herb is used as an emenagogue, antiarthritic, antifertility, laxative, ecbolic, abentifacient, and anti-helminthic, aphrodisiac, antiviral, anti-plasmodic, and antihypertensive, anticoagulant, diuretic, and anti-tumor in indigenous medicine. Cough, renal dropsy, fistula, scrofula, skin rash, nasal infection, chronic malaria, impotence, fever, asthma, piles, and snake bites are also treated with it. This herb has astringent, digestive, diuretic, laxative, purgative, and stomachic properties. The plant's juice is used to cure boils, diarrhoea, dysentery, haemorrhoids, rheumatic aches, itches, and skin eruptions. Metholic extraction offers higher yields than alcohol and petroleum extraction.