Kukkutandatvak

TRADITIONAL VIEW, WITH SAFETY LIMITS

Hindi name: Ande ka chhilka

What the texts say Kukkutandatvak does

• Asthiposhaka — nourishes bone
• Daha prashamana — relieves burning
• Shoshahara — used in shosha (wasting, emaciation)

What the evidence says. Egg shell calcium has been studied as a calcium source. No classical claim beyond that is established.

Side effects and limits

Calcium carbonate. Raw egg shell carries Salmonella risk, which is what the calcination removes.

Avoid or ask first: Hypercalcaemia.; Egg allergy — the membrane carries egg protein.; Uncalcined material.

A traditional classification, not a recommendation. The full safety record is below.

AS THE CLASSICAL TEXTS AND THE API PRESCRIBE

A sudha varga dravya — the calcium-bearing group — used where a calcium source is wanted.

Reported from Sharangadhara Samhita and the Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India. Laisha states what the texts prescribe; it does not recommend. No quantity here is adjusted for a particular person — not for agni, koshtha, bala, age, pregnancy, kidney or liver function, or anything already being taken.

Kukkutandatvak is classed among the jangama dravya.

Rasa, guna, virya, vipaka and karma are recorded as the classical texts give them, with the text and section named so a student can open the book and check.

Any shell powder can be sold as it. The membrane is classically retained in some preparations and removed in others.

From Domestic hen, Gallus gallus domesticus. The shell, and the shell membrane.

A WAY TO REMEMBER IT

Kukkuta-anda-tvak is cock-egg-skin, three plain words stacked. Kukkuta is onomatopoeic — it is the bird named for the sound it makes, as cock is in English.

One of the sudha varga, used in asthi and danta conditions and in daha.

Constituents. A product of Domestic hen, Gallus gallus domesticus.

• This is a study and clinical reference for practitioners and students. The matra and anupana it records are what the classical texts and the Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India PRESCRIBE — Laisha reports them, it does not recommend them. They are not a prescription for any particular person, and they are not adjusted for your age, agni, koshtha, bala, pregnancy, kidney or liver function, or anything else you are already taking. Only a qualified practitioner who has examined you can do that.
• Traditional classification is recorded as what the classical texts say, with the text and the place in it named. It is not restated as a finding about a human body.
• Nothing here replaces a qualified Ayurvedic practitioner or a doctor.