Medicines

Taking or using medicine means cure from sickness, protection against all ailments and the acquiring of good health and blessedness.

Taking medicine, for one who is sick and to whom the medicine issuited, is a bad sign. That also applies to phlebotomy and cupping. Forone w ho is healthy, it is a warning of sickness in which he will needtreatment like that. Taking medicine may also be indicative of sound religious commitment. One of the emirs dreamt that he was treated with cupping and hispavilion was splattered with his bloo d. The next morning, two blackmen entered upon him and killed him, and his pavilion was splatteredwith his blood. Yazeed ibn al - Muhallab dreamt, whilst he was in the prison of al - Hajjaaj that al - Hajjaaj treated him with cupping, and that signified hisrelea se from prison. One of the dream interpreters said: The person who dreams that he istreated with cupping will be appointed as a governor or will be entrustedwith something or will be subject to a contract based on conditions orhe will get married, because the neck is a sign of trust and cutting witha lancet is like writing with a pen. If the cupper is an old man, thisrepresents his fortune, and if he is a young man, this represents hisenemy who is writing something a document stipulating conditions anddebts . If a man dreams that he treats someone else with cupping, he willrise in status. If he treats a young man with cupping, he will prevailover his enemy. If an old man opens his vein, he will hear somethingnegative from a friend. If a young man opens his ve in lengthways, hewill hear slander from his enemy; if he opens his vein crosswise, oneof his relatives will die, because the venesection damages the vein andhardly ever leaves it sound. In my view, the phlebotomist does harm to the patient in all cases,eve n if the person doing it is known, because people say to the one whoharms his enemy and tries to remove him from his post: He let the bloodof so and so, meaning that he harmed him a great deal and preventedhim from reaching his goal.