Medicinal plants besides therapeutic agents are also a big source of information for a wide variety of chemical constituents which could be developed as drugs with precise selectivity. Podophyllum resin is a mixture of resins obtained from the rhizomes and roots of the herbaceous plant Podophyllum hexandrum Royle (P. emodi Wall.) or P. peltatum L. after percolation with ethanol and precipitation from water or very dilute acids.