The Compendium of Caraka 6.3.163

6.3.163

that decoction which has an astringent taste should be avoided in acute fever.
With sour or non-sour pulse soups, or beneficial broths of dry-land animals,
one should eat light food for up to ten days for the pacification of fever.
Thereafter, when kapha is mild and vāta and pitta predominate in the fever,