**3. Conclusion**

Recently there is no particular treatment available for the treatment of *FMDV*, and the limitations and disadvantages in the use of vaccines divert the focus of researchers toward natural sources like plant extracts which possess potential antiviral activity. The various research works documented in the literature demonstrated various plant extracts with antiviral potency against *FMDV*.

## **4. Future prospects**

The successful in vivo and in vitro anti-*FMDV* activities of plant extracts showed that they have the potential to be used to control the virus growth inside the body and also help in managing the lesions associated with these infections. In plant extracts, different chemical constituents are present which could be further isolated and effectively used in the development of powerful and potent antiviral drug against *FMDV*.
