Author(s)

Sadhan Kumar Roy¹, Dipak Kumar Roy²

¹Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Faculty of Life and Earth Sciences, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh.
²Department of Public Health, School of Health & Life Sciences, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Medicinal plants are playing an important role to human livelihood. Bangladesh is well recognized of medicinal plants wealth as unique and globally rich. The studies demonstrate about the value of traditional systems of medicine as economically useful plants and possible effects of climate change on medicinal plants. It is true that climate change is causing noticeable effects on life cycles and distribution of the plant species. However, climate change effects on medicinal plants are widely unclear in Bangladesh. At present, a huge number of populations in Bangladesh are directly dependent on the healthcare treatment by medicinal plants that is why it is an emerging concern in Bangladesh. It is a crying need to improve our understanding the effects on medicinal plants by various researches is stressed in the present article. To know the present condition of medicinal plants and effects of climate change on medicinal plants in northern part of Bangladesh an attempt is being taken here. The study also added the optimum use of medicinal plants and their conservation in northern part of Bangladesh.

Climate Change, Drought, Medicinal Plants, Conservation

Roy, S. and Roy, D. (2016) Use of Medicinal Plant and Its Vulnerability Due to Climate Change in Northern Part of Bangladesh. American Journal of Plant Sciences, 7, 1782-1793. doi: 10.4236/ajps.2016.713166.