Medicinal plants have a most important role to preserve the human healthy life. The plant Ricinus communis belonging to family Euphorbiaceae, commonly known as castor plant. It is a small tree which is found throughout the India in dry place. All parts of the plant is medicinally important such as root, leaves, fruits, seeds and flowers. Amongst all, the castor plant has high traditional and medicinal value for maintain the disease-free healthy life. Traditionally the plant is used as laxative, purgative and fungicide etc. whereas the plant possesses beneficial effects such as antihistamic, anti-oxidant, anti-asthmatic, antiulcer, immunomodulator, Antifertility, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, wound healing, larvicidal, demulcent and many other medicinal properties. The present research aims to review the medicinal and pharmacological properties of one of such common medicinal plants, Ricinus communis. This activity of the plant possess due to the important phytochemical constituents like flavonoids, saponins, glycosides, alkaloids, and steroids etc. The aim of this paper is to explain the details of Phyto-pharmacological properties of Ricinus communis for the future research work.