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Now a day, whole world is suffering from various diseases. Only few people are lucky who are not having any kind of diseases. From the big list of diseases, Hyperlipidemia is very common diseases in current scenario which only occur due to improper diet, consumption of high fatty things, smoking, or with food incompatibility. In this the fat or bad cholesterol is accumulate over the heart which cause so many problems like difficulty in breath, may increase heart rate, decrease blood supply etc. In ayurveda this disease is known as Medoroga means disease of fat which directly correlated with hridyaroga. There are so many plants which help to reduce hyperlipidemia. From them Arjuna shows excellent result in the curing of hyperlipidemia. In this current study, the review on the effect of Terminalia arjuna on hyperlipidemia as per ayurvedic literature is done.