The Compendium of Bheḷa 1.19

The blood formed according to rule of one consuming vāruṇī / becomes vitiated due to burning digestion; thence it leads to disease.

All liquor is harmful to the eyes, harmful to virility, / destroys the strength of men, and is declared non-conducive to longevity.

Yet he who uses it with proper method is not afflicted by disease; / and know that when drunk in excess, it is unwholesome, O seat of strength.

Therefore, a wise person should drink liquor properly, but not at night; / for this produces strength and complexion, and is supreme in causing health.

In drinking unctuous substances, and in the procedure of dose-enema, / and in alkali and in salt, surā is not prohibited.

There is no nourishing substance like surā taken with food; / but when it is dry, one should especially not consume it in excess.

Very cold, it dries up the [grahaṇī] vitiated by vāta and kapha / and kindles the grahaṇī of embodied beings.

For one in whom wind situated in the alimentary tract produces severe pain, / upward movement of wind with heart disease, or vāta-gulma,

or when the wind is established throughout all the limbs, / it quickly subsides for one who drinks clear liquor with proper method.

As fermented infusion destroys kapha and pitta, and breaks up the stool; / wine of honey [destroys] pitta, whereas fermented decoction pacifies the affliction of vāta.

The bladder is purified by drink, and gravel is broken; / vigor, strength, and joy increase through drink used with proper method.

Sweet, nourishing, it kindles desire at will, and does not cause harm; / therefore, understanding the qualities of drink, one should employ it appropriately. Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya. Thus ends the nineteenth chapter in Bheḷa. Chapter twenty. Now we shall explain the chapter on the ten vital vessels, so said the venerable Ātreya.