The purpose of this project is to determine the antibacterial effects of ancient Ayurvedic medicines on different morphological types of bacteria representing more dangerous bacteria. My hypothesis and overall evaluation of criteria are that if the specific medicine that I used, Haridrakhand, would prove to be effective upon the bacteria B.cereus because of its antibacterial properties. In the final procedure, I used the Kirby-Bauer disk-diffusion method on Mueller-Hinton Agar, a common process for testing modern-day antibiotics. This involved creating an extract of Haridrakhand and treating plain antibiotic disks with this extract so that the disk could be used in a side by side study with cloramphenicol disks on the bacteria B.cereus. After incubating the bacteria with both Haridrakhand and chloramphenicol both showed zones of inhibition (a clear sone around a filter disk where no bacteria grow). Haridrakhand had a 14 mm zone of inhibition, while chloramphenicol had a 36 mm zone of inhibition, and penicillin, which does not work against B.cereus, had a zone of 0 mm. Research is still being done into each individual ingredient in the medicine and any possible permutation which may create the antibacterial effects in question. In conclusion, the results suggest a positive outcome to confirm the hypothesis in the near future. These results suggest that studies would include improving methods for obtaining medicinal extracts as well as studies to determine the active antibacterial ingredient(s) in the medicine.