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With the increasing interest in polymers of natural origin, the pharmaceutical world has compliance to use most of them in their formulations. Moreover, the tremendous orientation of pharma world towards these naturally derived polymers has become a subject of increasing interest to discover, extract and purify such compounds from the reported origin. In the present review we have discussed mucilage, as a potent candidate to be used in various pharmaceutical formulations. We have also compiled the various sources which may lead to significant mucilage production and also the extraction procedure. The various properties have been dealt in detail, which makes it a potential candidate to be used as pharmaceutical excipient.