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Abstract: In present scenario, the growing demand of herbal medicines has created a huge challenge to standardize herbal materials extensively at rapid pace. To establish quality control parameters of a locally occurring medicinal plant, Euphorbia neriifolia is utilized as folk medicine in traditional system of medicine. In tremendous diverse world of medicinal plants, E. neriifolia is one of the important plants which contains remarkable medicinal values and is generally used as an effective herbal drug in several ailments such as rheumatism, sciatica, bronchitis, leucoderma. It has been a part of various traditional systems of medicine from the time immemorial. In classical literature of Unani medicine, a number of its varieties are mentioned like danda thuhar, nadhra thuhar, chaudhara thuhar, unglia thuhar and nagfani thuhar. The drug was taken for evaluation through various scientific parameters viz. macro and microscopical studies, physico-chemical analysis and HPTLC fingerprinting. The drug was also analysed for detection of heavy metals, pesticide residues, microbial load and aflatoxins to ensure its safety and efficacy. The data presented in the present study can be helpful in developing pharmacopoeial standards of E. neriifolia stem.