India focuses on strengthening its healthcare systems; increasingly seeks to provide comprehensive health services to its fellow citizens with a sense of direction. Indian healthcare reforms aimed to improve efficiency and effectiveness; fairness and equality; social justice and access to services represent an essential response to health challenges and the population's growing expectations. Meanwhile, the nature of health problems is changing dramatically. Urbanization, industrialization, commercialization, globalization and other factors increase the burden of disease and healthcare costs, as well as the loss of RET medicinal plants. Many systems appear to be shifting from one short-term priority to another, increasingly fragmented and without a strong sense of preparedness for what lies ahead. Fortunately, the current socio-political environments globally are conducive to the renewal and strengthening of medicinal plants RET and its availability through traditional medicines and its practices for healthcare. Global health is receiving unprecedented attention towards the growth of RET medicinal plants and their protection. There is growing interest in united action towards RET medicinal plants with increased calls for global universal care and health policies. Building on this momentum, India recognizes four sets of interconnected reforms that aim to achieve universal access and social protection through traditional medicine – AYUSH – so as to improve equity and equality; reorganize the delivery of traditional medicine services according to people's needs and expectations along with their beliefs; ensure healthier communities through improved secular care practices with balanced approaches; and reshaping availability...... middle of paper ......or greater equity in health and environmental health, with particular attention to medicinal plants RET must be a society-wide and system-wide effort ;[2] mediate the involvement of multiple stakeholders to create a "health-environmental complex" for effective protection of RET medicinal plants and reduce health costs";[3] reorient information systems to better monitor and evaluate the performance of “health-environmental complex” and introduce field-based innovations into the design and commit individually to managing their direction and implementation;[4] capacity building should not be treated as a recipe, but is an integral part of “health management change" with a focus on reform; and[5] all reforms must be adapted to very different national contexts, while mobilizing a common set of drivers to promote health equity and equality.