Ashtangasamgraha 3.80

3.80

dharmottarābhirarthyābhiḥ kathābhistriguṇātmabhiḥ |

madhyaṃ dinasya gamayediṣṭaśiṣṭasahāyavān ||

yacca pittajvare proktaṃ bahirantaśca bheṣajam |

raktapitte hitaṃ tacca kṣatakṣīṇe hitaṃ ca yat ||

One should spend the middle of the day in the company of agreeable and cultured companions / Engaged in meaningful conversations centered on virtue and endowed with the three aims of life. / Whatsoever medicine, external and internal, is prescribed in fever of pitta origin, / And whatever is wholesome in chest trauma with wasting, is also wholesome in bleeding disorders.