The Compendium of Caraka 6.8.148

6.8.148

Having cooked sugar candy, one may also prepare this powder into pills; / for pills, by contact with fire, are considered lighter than powders.
Thus ends the Tālīśādya powder and pills.
For those who are wasting and depleted of flesh, the skilled physician / should give prepared meats of carnivorous animals, especially as tonics.