Mayong, a village under morigaon district of Assam state, India is also known as village of magic or black magic. Usually the village has drawn the attention due to the traditional occult and folklore practice. Till today few people in the village maintain the tradition too. Not only, the traditional herbal practices but also the witchcraft was in practice by the people of this area. Several herbs have been used for both the purposes. Out of curiosity a tour was conducted to the village and several palm leaf manuscripts were found preserved with valuable information both on occult and folk practices. Attention was given to explore the remedial measures possible for further research on health issues through herbal formulations.

Medicinal plants are emerging issue in global scenario now. The plants are used for various disease conditions from time immemorial before upcoming of modern medicine. Though today modern medicine is capable to control major issues in medical emergencies but leaves certain lacunae due to it’s post management hazardous situations. Several fields are still unattended completely by modern medicines. Interestingly, traditional system of medicine like Ayurveda, Siddha etc., plays a vital role till today in remote areas for managing several medical issues exclusively by using medicinal herbs as a tradition of Ayurveda & Siddha. Both the systems advocate, numerous medicinal plants for various disease conditions. It was the interest to document the medicinal plants used for Reproductive Child Health (RCH) along with Mother and Child Health (MCH) as a small component of great Ayurvedic and Siddha ocean. Usually these medicinal plants have important role in the management of RCH & MCH issues. Such claims of advocating its perspective importance possibly to meet the need by extensive research in future. We do not claim its positive assessment but such prevailing claim are only documented here for future research. Medicinal plants have been presented here with scientific preview in every RCH & MCH issues.

Guggulu a very known and common name in the field of Ayurvedic practices which is used as an important medicine for treating a lot of diseases. The drug having a lot of potency described in Ayurveda with pharmacological action tested with its present Research and Development study. It should be wiser to establish a platform for the next generation to understand the modules of Guggulu preparations and administrations. Though guggulu is an established drug but the phytochemical and Pharmacological R and D study have found the merits and demerits of the guggulusterone, the active principle of the drug Guggulu. However, the relationship between the effect of Guggulu both in Ayurveda and modern science has been found similar. Efforts have been made in this paper to study the relationship of Guggulu starting from Veda to present Lab. facts.

Ancient way of diagnosis was completely based on theory of body and mind enumerated with various sign and symptoms having clinico-pathological importance. Now-a-days people are more vulnerable to various groups of diseases due to polluted food, water and environment etc. But it is hard to get a person having well-being with normal excretion of stool and urine along with feeling of appetite as described in Madhava system of diagnosis. The similar description of health and well-being according to Acharya Madhava is identical to WHO definition of health. But Acharya Madhava exclusively named as Avisham(free from toxins) in the name of Swasthya(healthy) contrary to statement of Acharya Susruta as importance to Jivha (tongue) is being modified by Madhava as mala (stool) and mutra (urine) which is accepted more scientifically. However, before diagnosing a person being avisha (detoxed) it would be highly essential to ensure the normalcy of other factors like dosha(bodily humours), dhaatu (blood,tissues) etc.It is also to mention here that the secondary condition like Sama mutra vittkam (normal excretion of urine, stool) and Annaabhikamam (desire for food)) would be possible only when all the dosha, dhaatu will be in normal condition along with Indriya (sensory and motor organs) mana (mind) also. It is very important that Madhava has rightly pointed out two important things like Annaabhikamam and sammutra vittkam in symmetrical to Susruta's statement which are responsible to keep dosha, dhatu in proper tract by ultimately proving a detoxed body. The paper deals with importance of Madhava system of diagnosis in comparison with Susruta's statement of Swasthya or well-being.

In Vŗhatryee, Sūsrūta has the doctrine of surgical management along with related descriptions of anatomy, physiology. Though Charaka and Vāgbhata have similar description but are not up to the content like Sūsrūta. Sūsrūta was the first who described surgical operations and had broad view on sterilization pre and post-operative management along with intensive care which are unique and has prime importance. In modern system of medicine intensive care plays a vital role for patient’s life and sustenance. It was inter-esting to evaluate that Sūsrūta system of intensive care has been described considering all aspects where he has given importance to the major specialties required. In the line of shlokas all the meanings are buried and are yet to be understood in the line of description. It is also very important to know that the present system of surgery though so advanced but also existed before 1000 B.C and which is clearly evident from the description found. Sūsrūta had felt the necessity of multispecialty physician cum surgeon’s advice dur-ing critical care as per the prevailing system. During Sūsrūta time different names (probably nominated specialists of different wings) were given due importance to the critical management of the patients are usually seen nowadays in modern system of medicine. In the present paper efforts have been taken to de-cipher the every term used by Sūsrūta in parlance to modern system concerned to ancient system of critical care.