Folk medicines have good impact in rural sectors of Sundarban mangrove area. Rural poor and marginalized
people of mangrove forest area depend on mangrove plants for primary health problems. During the resource collection
period they stay few day’s insight in the forest. In this period if they suffer any kind of health problems then they use
mangrove plants to solve their health problems. They have not any other opportunity for solving this problem.
In this situation bwall is remedies is important to them. The area when they go to collect resource is an isolated area and far
from this habitats. So, naturally, there is no availability of health center nearly. So it is a time consuming matter for them to
go to the health centre. The obstacles like geographical location and poor communication system stand in their ways.
Besides, there traditional resource collections, when they go to forest, they go in group and return as a group. As there is no
other way to return back except their boat, they do not leaved any person behind them. The crisis comes when somebody of
their group falls ill. If they person has to be treated in modern way of treatment, the whole group has to return back with
the ill man. As it is not possible every time, they, under compulsion, use the medicinal plant available these to some extent
and so they depend on them traditionally.