Witnessed by: Ayurveda

Goat tooth (Capra hircus), of the Bovidae (Mammalia) family. The domestic goat — a small horned ruminant of the Bovidae, kept for milk, hair and meat across the subcontinent; native range: the domestic goat, kept throughout the Indian subcontinent; the teeth taken from the slaughtered animal. Globally recognized as aja danta in Sanskrit, and goat tooth in English. The part used is the tooth, calcined (burnt to a white friable ash) before use. A small hard tooth, ivory-white to yellowish, stony to the touch; calcined it goes chalk-white, light and friable, grinding to a fine gritless powder that is practically tasteless and odourless.

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