Plants serve as a bio-reactor for production of secondary metabolites, aromatic compounds, food additives; pharmaceutical actives among others. Conventional agricultural practices are labour intensive, time-consuming and industrially ineffective to meet demands for such bio-active products of the crops. Also limited availability of land renders standardization impossible for stimulated production of such essential metabolites. In the current paper, various micropropagation methods for aromatic and medicinal crops such as callus, anther, pollen, somatic cell cultures are extensively discussed. The article also mentions standardization of media components, hormones, physico-chemical parameters, hardening media and green house conditions for such crops. The current report majorly focuses on production of one such aromatic and medicinally important crop Pogostemon cablin, Patchouli. Authors believe that this report will provide extensive information for alternative to conventional agricultural practices for propagation of Patchouli, distillation andextraction of oil.