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In recent years, plant extracts have been widely developed and used, but the pollution of heavy metals has threatened the safe application of plant extracts. Therefore, effective removal of heavy metal pollution in plant extracts has become an urgent problem to be solved and a research hotspot at home and abroad. At present, the widely used heavy metals removal technologies include flocculent precipitation, adsorption, molecular sieve and so on. Other new technologies and materials are also being applied to the removal of heavy metals from plant extracts, such as microbiological methods, nanotechnology, ion/molecular imprinting techniques, biomimetic materials, etc. This paper reviews the related literature about the principle and application of removal of heavy metals in plant extracts in recent years, summarizes the characteristics of each method, and prospects the development trends and prospects for the future.