Paper Details

Name: Swaroopa Chandorkar, Sharda Dagade Gadale, Shobha Waghmode
Email: shobhawaghmode@gmail.com
Country: India

Year: 2021
Volume: Volume-8, Issue-1 (Jan-June)

Recently the global research is going towards nanoscale products and technology related to nanomaterials. Nanotechnology is the science and engineering involved in the design, synthesis, characterization and application of materials which are in nanometer scale. Although the nanotechnology is the technology of 21st century, its traces can be found in the old Indian medicinal culture. Ayurveda is a branch of medicine developed in vedic period and commonly practiced in Indian subcontinent. There are two main pillars stated in Ayurveda regarding treatment – one is physician and another is medicine. We can find the glimpse of nanotechnology mainly in the part explaining preparation of medicine particularly in non-herbal medicine preparation. In this review, we will try to uncover the relation between Ayurveda and nanotechnology. This review briefly explains about Ayurveda and nanotechnology. Any metal, mineral or gem when get converted into nano sized structure or nanoparticles, the physicochemical properties of that substance changes. Many concepts like one above given example are there in Ayurveda which were explained thousands of years back. This review is about such concepts and it mainly focus on synthesis of nanoparticles in ancient times and properties of nanoparticles beneficial in medicines.