Tiger claw (Panthera tigris), of the Felidae (Mammalia) family. The great striped cat of forest and grassland; the drug is the retractile claw; native range: the forests, grasslands and mangrove of the Indian subcontinent and southern and eastern Asia; the animal now protected and the trade prohibited. Globally recognized as vyaghra nakha in Sanskrit, bagh nakh in Hindi, and tiger claw, tiger nail in English. The part used is the claw. A curved, laterally flattened keratin sheath, pale horn to amber and translucent at the thin edge, hollow at the base where it seated on the bone, hard and layered, without taste or odour.

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