Witnessed by: Ayurveda

Boar tooth (Sus scrofa), of the Suidae (Mammalia) family. The wild boar, the tusked wild swine of the Indian forests; native range: the wild boar of the forests, scrub and field-edges of the Indian subcontinent. Globally recognized as varaha danta in Sanskrit, and boar tusk, boar tooth in English. The part used is the tooth or tusk, calcined to ash (danta bhasma). A curved ivory-white tusk, dense and very hard, burnt to a white friable ash and levigated fine before use.

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