An overview on plastic and its impact in ayurveda

Ease of production, transportation and low cost made plastic to become a major part of human life in many ways especially in packaging and for storage of materials. In Ayurvedic pharmaceutical industry also we can see its influence. Though plastics are having many advantages, its disadvantages are more when coming to health of living beings. Besides pollution, plastics also impart some health hazards and in Ayurvedic science also, we can see many effects. Many of the times, we may have witnessed about the shrinkage and bulging of bottles, distaste of medicine, etc. These are due to drug and plastic reactions. Modern research works in pharmaceutics termed some reactions as leaching, sorption, etc. As we are claiming to be the ambassadors of a traditional natural science; we, the Ayurvedic doctors should be more aware about this.