The article describes certain aspects of illness and of health facilities on a comparative basis between geographical regions in East Nepal. The article focuses on diseases whose remedies have implications for changes in socio-cultural conditions. It tries to raise the issue of integrated health services with broader outlines which will be useful in national planning. The author studies health services in Himalayan, hill, and Terai regions of eastern Nepal. The article writes that one of the interviewees answered that the Terai people are less health conscious than the hill region people. The article surveys eastern Nepal from Solukhumbhu to Jhapa concerning health services and practices used for curing disease. (Rajeev Ranjan Singh 2007-01-09)