The Compendium of Caraka 6.3.152

6.3.152

and cause downward movement of vāta, urine, feces, and the humors.
Because of being liquid and hot, [they are] for sweating; because of liquidity, for quenching thirst;
because of being food, for vital breath; and because of fluidity, for lightness.
They are fever-destroying because of compatibility with fever; therefore, from the beginning, with drinkable gruels
a wise man should treat fevers, except that arising from alcohol.
In intoxication, in habitual drinkers, in summer, where pitta and kapha are excessive,
and in upward-moving bleeding disorder, thin gruel is not beneficial in fever.
There, a soothing drink should be employed first with parched-grain flour,
joined with fever-removing fruit juices, together with honey and sugar.
Then, considering suitability and strength, one should feed him whose soothing drink is digested