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Opuntia dillenii is an important medicinal shrub growing under desert and dry conditions. Though almost all of its parts are used in traditional systems of medicines, stem, fruit, flower, roots are the most important parts, which are used medicinally. Specially the fruit is considered a refrigerant, and is said to be useful in gonorrhoes. In the Deccan the baked fruit is given in whooping cough. A syrup of the fruit appears to increase the secretion of bile when given in teaspoon full doses three or four times a day and to control spasmodic cough and expectoration. This article gives an account of updated information on its Phyto chemical analysis revealed the presence of alkaloids, phenols, Flavonoids, terpenoids, steroids and glycosides. In this present study, we have synthesized Silver Nano particles using Opuntia dillenii is used as capping and reducing agent in the synthesis of Silver Nano particles. The formation of Nano particles was confirmed by UV-Visible, FT-IR, XRD and Scanning electron microscopy (SEM).This green method is simple, rapid, Echo-friendly, and reliable and it may have a potential use in the biomedical applications. In the future, selection of such plants may create a new plat-form for realizing the potential of herbal medicines in Nano-science for drug delivery.