The Compendium of Caraka 3.2.13_2

3.2.13_2

In severe disorders of āma, however, when the food has digested at the time of a meal, but observing that the stomach is still smeared with doshas, the belly is rigid and heavy, and the patient has no desire for food, one should administer medicine to digest the remaining doshas and to kindle the digestive fire, but never [give] food during indigestion; for the digestive fire weakened by the severe disorder of āma is not able to digest the doshas, the medicine, and the mass of food at the same time.