The research delineated a complex scenario of medical pluralism. As has been observed in many South Asian contexts (Amarsingham Rhodes 1984 ; Beals 1980; Lambert 1996; Nichter 1989; pigg 1990; pinto 2008), patients and sufferers continually resort to different healing techniques in order to fnd the best solutions to their problems. Alongside these different healing practices, biomedicine today occupies an important place in the treatment of illness. Biomedicine has been known in Garhwal for several decades, through the drugs thte in the villages are administered by trained as well as unqualified practitioners (see also Pinto 2008), the presence of a hospital in the district’s main city, the existence of primary health centres all over the district, the flourishing of many private medical surgeries, and the periodic organization of government funded health-checking camps.