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Traditionally, herbal medicines have been used as alternative medicines in the West and the East. Future studies about herbal medicine will be required of sufficient database searching. 3P(Paper, Patent, and Product) analysis will be a useful method. To improve new research about herbal medicine, 3P analysis was performed by paper analysis using SCOPUS database (DB), patent analysis using FOCUST DB, and product analysis using FROST & SULLIVAN DB. Up to date, 32,233 numbers of paper, 5,133 numbers of patent, and 96 numbers of product were found by 3P analysis. Those informations could help understanding about past, current, and future of research in herbal medicines. Therefore, a variety of 3P analysis could provide the status of research and future information to reduce failure risk in R&D of herbal medicines.