Ashtangasamgraha 23.10

23.10

auṣadhagrāmastu jaladodarapratatapramuktadhārāvapātasambhṛtāmbunivahopaplāvitamūlajālasāraviṭapo bahalakomalapallavopacitaskandhaśākhaḥ punariva bālatāmupagato 'lpavīryo bhavati |

aparisaṃsthitatayā ca kṣitimalapnāyābhiramlavipākābhiḥ khagamṛgasarīsṛpādiśavadhātumūtrapurīṣasaṃspṛṣṭābhiradbhiḥ salilaśiśiraśīkarānuviddhaśiśirapavanasampṛktena ca dhārādharoṣmaṇā komalatvādapariṇatasyāsya sutarāṃ vidāho janyate |

tataścāsāvapathyatāmupagato dhruvamayogāya prathamasaṃgṛhītamapicauṣadhaṃ toyadatoyānugatamārutopahate jagatīti ||

yathoktopadravādhikyāt sa sarvendriyatāpanaḥ ||

The collection of medicinal plants, however, has its root-system and core branches submerged in water collected from unbroken downpours loosed from the belly of clouds, and its trunk and boughs covered in dense, tender shoots; having returned, as it were, to a state of infancy, it possesses little potency.

Moreover, on account of their unsettled nature, the waters—abounding in the impurities of the earth, sour in post-digestive effect, and contaminated by the carcasses, bodily tissues, urine, and feces of birds, beasts, reptiles, and the like—together with the heat of the cloud-burst mixed with cold wind pierced by chilled water-spray, produce intense burning digestion in these [plants] that are tender and immature.

Hence, having become unsuitable, the medicine inevitably leads to inadequate action, even if gathered earlier, once the earth has been afflicted by wind following the waters of the clouds.

From the excess of complications as described, it torments all the sense organs.