To provide a swallowing-assistive drink for medicines that improves swallowing various medicines, is convenient and substitutable with ordinary drinking water, and does not disturb the efficacy of medicines and a swallowing method.A swallowing-assistive drink for helping swallowing medicines that contains water and an adhesive paste, forming a viscous liquid or a gelatinoid. If the drink is viscous liquid, the viscosity is 1,000-25,000 cP at 20.degree. C., and if the drink is gelatinous, jelly gel strength is 10-100 g/cm.sup.2 at 20.degree. C.