**Abstract**

Herbal therapy has been an important part of health and wellness for hundreds of years. The renewed interest in medicinal plants has focused on herbal cures among indigenous populations around the world. Recent surveys have indicated that worldwide people now make more visits to healthcare professionals who specialize in alternative medicine than to doctors who practice conventional medicine. It is hoped that extracts from herbs will add new medicinal plants to the world's pharmacopoeia before they are lost forever that too particularly against viral infection. Based on the ethnobotanical data and the information collected from Siddha/ Ayurvedic practitioners of India, extracts obtained from *Boerhavia diffusa*, *Eclipta alba* and *Phyllanthus amarus* will be having great potential in curing various viral infections.

**Keywords:** antiviral, herbs, *Boerhavia diffusa*, *Eclipta alba*, *Phyllanthus amarus*
