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Abstract : Natural products from medicinal plants provide a huge opportunity for the emergence of new drugs. Crataegus monogyna, also known as common hawthorn, is a medicinal shrub whose bioactive compounds gain importance worldwide because of its efficiency in treating chronic disease conditions. Due to increase in the need of these bioactive compounds, use of appropriate and standard analytical techniques holds a great demand. Analytical techniques include extraction, isolation, identification and quantification of bioactive compounds from C. monogyna. Numerous new methods have been established under each category of analytical techniques. However, standard methods for recovering, processing and utilising bioactive compounds remains a major gap both in pilot as well as industry levels. Therefore, the main aspect of this review is to exploit all analytical techniques employed on C. monogyna, highlighting critical parameters such as time, temperature, yield of extract, total phenolic content and antioxidant activity in order to enrich the production of antioxidant-rich bioactive compounds from C. monogyna plant extract.