The Compendium of Caraka 2.2.11

2.2.11

For the swift pacification of this fast-acting, urgent affliction that has fallen like a forest fire, an attentive [physician] must make an effort, having considered the dosage, the habitat, and the season, by means of nourishing therapy or reducing therapy, with articles of food and drink that are mild, sweet, cooling, bitter, and astringent, or with poultices, sprinklings, immersion baths, tactile applications, or emesis and the like.