Ayurvedic medicine is a Hindu system of traditional medicine native to India and a form of alternative medicine. The earliest literature on Indian medical practice appeared during the Vedic period in India. The Suśruta Saṃhitā and the Charaka Saṃhitā Ancient India Herbal medicine dates back several thousand years to the Rig-Veda, the collection of Hindu sacred verses. This is the basis of a health care system known as Ayurvedic medicine.One useful plant that has come from Ayurvedic tradition is snakeroot, Rauwolfia serpentina, because the roots resembled the shape of snakes. Rauwolfia serpentina contains a variety of compounds with antioxidant capacity and other health benefits like treatment of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, mental illness and hypertension, schizophrenia, gastrointestinal diseases, circulatory disorders, pneumonia, fever, malaria, asthma, skin disease, scabies, eye diseases, spleen diseases, AIDS, rheumatism, body pain, veterinary diseases etc. this plant is also being used to prepare fermented food products. It has been stated that this plant is used as antidote against snakebite.. The antibacterial and antifungal activities were high in petroleum ether and acetone extract of rauwolfia serpentina.