HO community of Jharkhand exhibits deep faith and reverence for Hodopathy or folk medicine and traditional practitioners. The traditional healers are revered and socially empowered. The methods of healing used by traditional healers are acquired through spiritual modes. The efficiency and effectiveness of traditional practitioners were especially noticed during the Covid 19 pandemic. While there was a rush for hospitals in the urban spaces, folk medicines prescribed by the traditional practitioners were enough for the Ho community members of West Singhbhum in Jharkhand. Fieldwork and interviews revealed that the HO community members remained safe during Covid 19. Few cases, when reported, were administered herbal medicines. But acceptability in the urban space is yet to come. Experiences during Covid 19 pandemic have promoted the use of herbs as complementary or integrative medicine but conventional practitioners of medicine are still apprehensive. Tribal activists spread awareness about the materiality of traditional knowledge and the doctors demand double-blind lab reports of the chemical constituents of the herbal medicines used by traditional practitioners.