Traditional and allopathic medicines are the two most commonly used therapies used by most of the patients. Traditional medicine is widely consumed by a high number of patients who do not advise their clinicians of concomitant use. This cross sectional study is designed to know about the people view about the use of traditional and allopathic drugs use. This study was conducted in northern area of KPK (Swat, bunner), and Fata (FR Peshawar) Pakistan. A total of 270 persons took part in the study. Majority of participants were men, their mean age was 32.5 years. Most of them were literate. Majority of people preferred to use traditional medicines instead of allopathic medicines. The main reason of traditional therapy over allopathic drugs was economy, less side effects and easy availability. Most of the people get medicines from home pharmacy. Majority of peoples has observed side effects with use of allopathic medicine, while most of people have no faith on traditional therapies. A big number of populations preferred to advise traditional therapies to others instead of allopathic therapies. While in emergency cases majority of people use allopathic therapy instead of traditional therapies contrast to that in routine cases most of the people uses traditional therapies instead of allopathic therapies.