The Compendium of Caraka 6.3.166

6.3.166

the physician should not make him drink ghee; he should treat him with decoctions.
As long as there is lightness, he should give food with meat broth,
for strength is sufficient to control the humors, and that produces strength.
For one overcome by burning and thirst, whose fever has vāta and pitta predominant,
whose humors are bound or displaced, [and] free from āma, he should overcome it with milk.
When the fever does not go to pacification by these procedures,