[Summary] Here are the re-capitulatory verses The origin of Ayurveda, circumstances of its advent onto the world of the living, its promulgation, the approbation of the aphoristic compilation, the definition of Ayurveda are described.
रसाः सप्रत्ययद्रव्यास्त्रिविधो द्रव्यसङ्ग्रहः| मूलिन्यश्च फलिन्यश्च स्नेहाश्च लवणानि च ||१३८||
Causes, dravya, the tastes, three-fold classification of the drugs or thedravya, rooters, fruiters, unctuous substances and salts are described in brief.
Urine, milk, six plants whose latex and barks are used as drugs; actions of all of these; merits and demerits of the right and wrong administration of them have been described.
The denunciation of quacks, points indicating the qualities of best physician; all these have been described in brief in the first chapter by the great sages.