there are many methods used for extraction of medicinal plants, mostly effective hot extraction and cold extraction. for more benefits, i'll send you full details about this subject.
it depends on which part of plant you want to work, generally for the extraction of constituents non polar solvents are the choice, and for polar constituents extractions could be done with aqueous ethanol and further degraded.
Medicinal plants are gaining much interest recently because their use in ethno medicine treating common disease such as cold, fever and other medicinal claims are now supported with sound scientific evidences. The study on medicinal plants started with extraction procedures that play a critical role to the extraction outcomes (e.g. yield and phytochemicals content) and also to the consequent assays performed. A wide range of technologies with different methods of extraction is available nowadays. Hence, this review aim to describe and compare the most commonly used methods based on their principle, strength and limitation to help evaluating the suitability and economic feasibility of the methods.