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Q: How rare are hens teeth in China?
Must be a TCM thing as I can never find any.
So how rare are hens teeth here?
I have loads of rocking horse shit in my spare bedroom.
I feed mt rocking horses hens teeth. My Mil gets them for me.
No Idea where she gets them, but I have tons of rocking horse shit 
I have loads of rocking horse shit in my spare bedroom.
I feed mt rocking horses hens teeth. My Mil gets them for me.
No Idea where she gets them, but I have tons of rocking horse shit
I'll check with my MIL. That crazy old bag hoards everything. I bet she has a stash under the unicorn skin.
Kudos Mr Hotwater. Finally a question is posted this month that is not ridiculous, insane, asinine or just complete bullshit.
You know how the leprechauns hide a pot of gold
Well Some think the wu mao trolls hide hens teeth under bridges in China
Maybe we should grab hold of one ,hold him upside down and shake to see what falls out
BHGAL:
smart ass.... I am a leprechaun and your implication that you can just go get me or one of my family, insults me. have you ever tried? what is your pot of gold? Believe me, us little fellows have grown a bit, and sometimes even left Ireland for a different life. I am an Irish Indian and there is no better beer drinkers on the planet than us.
There are no bird with true teeth, a few waterfowl have serrated bills.
A hen can have teeth, but in order to achieve this they must have, at one time, crossbred with a rat, or other mammal. So, because this is China, I see no reason why there may not be a black market of hen's teeth not too terribly far from your home.
How about Hen's teeth
- Modern birds have no teeth, Archaeopteryx did.
- To get teeth you need to mix epithelium in the mouth with jaw mesoderm. The epithelium tells the mesoderm to make teeth.
- Experiments by Kollar and Fisher indicate that chick epithelium is capable of inducing mesoderm to form teeth, but you have to supply it with mammal mesoderm. Persumably birds mesoderm has lost the capacity to "listen to the signal" that the epithelium is singing. The epithelium still sings a good song, which suggests that it must have a function in other places in development to be maintained for 60+ million years!
ScotsAlan:
Swans are interesting BHGAL. They have no teeth, so what they do is swallow small stones. These stones then roll about in their stomach grinding there food. I only know this from angling in the UK. Lead weights were banned in the UK because swans thought the split shot weights were small stones, and they were dying from lead poisoning. The same thing in going on in the US at the moment with issuing lead free bullets to the military. Fish without are even more interesting. But hey ho, this is about hens teeth. I will need to wait for the fish teeth question.
BHGAL:
believe it or not.... I knew/know about the dangerous lead weight stuff
