TMR Modern Herbal Medicine doi: 10.53388/MHM2021A0506002 Submit a manuscript: https://www.tmrjournals.com/mhm 1 TMR Modern Herbal Medicine homepage: https://www.tmrjournals.com/mhm Extraction and antibacterial potential of traditional medicinal plant Cypreus compressus Amir Hassan 1,* , Shahzeb 2,* , Muhammad Waqas 2 , Nawaz Khan 1 1 Department of Chemistry Government Post Graduate College Mardan, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan 23200 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan; 2 Department of Botany, Government Post Graduate College Mardan, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan 23200 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. *Correspondence to: Amir Hassan, amirhassan741@gmail.com; Shahzeb, shahzekhanbot@gmail.com; Highlights The traditional plant-based medical system goes forward to play a significant role in health maintenance, around 80% of the world’s population relying primarily on traditional medicine for primary health care. Some plants have healing potential long before humans discovered the existence of micro-organisms contain what we currently call the antibacterial principle, which has been broadly accepted. The current attempt was made due to resistance development in bacteria to available drugs. For this, the plant selected is Cypreus compressus, which can play an important role in decreasing this problem of controlling the bacterial actions.