Witnessed by: Ayurveda

Elephant dung (Elephas maximus), of the Elephantidae (Mammalia) family. The Asian elephant — the largest land animal of Asia, a hind-gut fermenter that digests its bulk of forage poorly; native range: the Asian elephant of India and southeast Asia, wild and kept; the dung is gathered where the animal stands. Globally recognized as kari gūtha in Sanskrit, and elephant dung in English. The part used is the dung. Great coarse balls of barely-broken plant fibre, pale to olive-brown, drying light and papery, the smell grassy rather than foul.

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