Cattle tooth (Bos taurus), of the Bovidae (Mammalia) family. The cow, kept as a domestic animal; the drug is her tooth, taken from the skull; native range: wherever the cow is kept; the teeth taken from the skull of the dead animal. Globally recognized as go danta in Sanskrit, and cattle tooth, cow tooth in English. The part used is the tooth — cleaned, then burnt to ash (danta bhasma). A hard, heavy, off-white to yellowish tooth, glassy at the crown and dull at the root; burnt, it gives a light greyish-white ash without taste.

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