Medicine

In a dream, medicines applied externally to human skin signify rectifying one’s religious life; medicine signifies practising religion correctly and sincerely, beneficial knowledge, heeding admonition, relief, and joy.

Drinking medicine in a dream signifies sustenance; taking medicine by swallowing it signifies the sinner’s repentance, the unbeliever’s finding guidance, and the ignorant person’s benefiting from gatherings of knowledge or reading beneficial books.

Using a suppository in a dream signifies learning hidden secrets and investigating information concerning a matter; a laxative signifies the passing of distress; vitamins signify strength and good sustenance for a healthy person, and recovery for a sick person; medicine that is difficult to use or swallow signifies speedy recovery; drawing medicine into the nose signifies becoming angry over something; medicine signifies learning and reciting the Qur’an.

Taking medicine in a dream is interpreted as good. Drinking medicine in a dream indicates that your state of health is good. Bitter medicine is a sign of loss or illness. If you see that you give medicine to someone, it means that you will hurt a close person who trusts you.

It is interpreted according to the taste and colour of the medicine. If it is bitter and of a beautiful colour, it is good. If it is yellow, it is bad. If it is sweet, time is needed for the problem to be resolved.

Seeing medicine in a dream is interpreted as healing and goodness. A person who sees himself ill in his dream and drinks medicine will become devoted to his religion. Seeing oneself buy medicine from a pharmacy indicates going to a mosque or masjid for worship; seeing oneself drink the medicine one has bought indicates that one’s worship has been accepted.

Drinking a sweet-smelling and sweet-tasting medicine in a dream signifies recovery if one is ill and paying one’s debt if one is indebted. Seeing bitter and foul-smelling medicine is not interpreted as auspicious. Taking and drinking medicine given to one by members of one’s household signifies that one will marry if unmarried; if married, it indicates that one will have a child or that a traveller will arrive.

Seeing oneself open a medicine box and find no medicine inside signifies that news one is awaiting will not arrive; seeing that the medicine contained in a bottle is not medicine but water signifies that one’s hopes concerning a matter one is awaiting will be disappointed. If the medicine one drinks is yellow, it signifies illness; if white, healing; if green, worship; and if black, it signifies that one’s illness will worsen.

Drinking medicine of good taste that gives relief in a dream is interpreted as health and abundant sustenance. Seeing medicine that is dropped into the eye for pain in the eyes signifies that there are certain matters being concealed from one in the house; seeing oneself drop this medicine into one’s eye signifies that the concealed things have been disclosed.

Seeing oneself put medicine drops into one’s nose signifies that certain secrets will be resolved; having drops put into one’s ear signifies that there is some gossip being spoken about one.

According to another account: Medicine seen in a dream signifies the goodness of religion. Therefore, whoever sees himself drinking medicine so that his illness may be cured rectifies his religion. A person’s drinking medicine in a dream signifies knowledge, admonition, and benefiting from these. Not eating or drinking medicine in a dream signifies turning away from the truth, rebelliousness and deviation, and preferring the desires of one’s lower self.

Eating medicine made from sweet-smelling substances in a dream signifies marriage for an unmarried person; for a woman who is not pregnant, a child; and for a poor person, wealth. Powdered medicine signifies being avid for the world; medicine that is drunk signifies sustenance; that which is swallowed like a pill signifies repentance for the rebellious, guidance for the unbeliever, and aversion to knowledge for the ignorant. Medicine used by women to prevent childbirth signifies marriage for an unmarried girl and a child for a woman who is not pregnant.

Using a suppository in a dream signifies investigating news and becoming acquainted with hidden secrets. Whoever sees himself drinking a purgative medicine in order to recover from his illness will rectify his religion in proportion to the medicine’s strength, danger, and demonstrated effect. If he sees that he immediately seeks well-being after drinking the medicine, that person will rectify his worldly affairs.

Whoever sees himself putting medicine drops into his eye in a dream will attach greater importance to religious life. If every medicine to be drunk seen in a dream is yellow, that drink signifies illness. Drinking in a dream any medicine that is easy to drink signifies recovery from illness, and for a healthy person, avoiding things that harm him.

Medicine that is unpleasant to eat and difficult to pass through the throat in a dream signifies an illness from which one will quickly recover. Some interpreters have also said that medicine which is pleasant to eat and easy to drink is good for the rich and bad for the poor. The interpretation of what comes out of a person through medicine is not like the interpretation of what comes out without medicine.

Seeing medicine drawn into the nose in a dream signifies the arrival of calamity and affliction, or one’s need of one’s father, mother, or leader, or mental illness. If the digestive medicine seen in a dream has a pleasant smell, it signifies elevation and the removal of sorrow, grief, distress, and illnesses.

If you are taking medicine of good taste in a dream, you will encounter some problems, but you will be able to find solutions to these problems immediately. Bitter medicine is the harbinger of loss and illness.

Ibn Sirin: Seeing medicine in a dream signifies healing and knowledge, the right path, and repentance.

It can be read as a sign of easing, receiving support, gaining morale, or a fruitful development.

Underestimating opportunities, succumbing to comfort, or being late may reduce the positive effect.

In the interpretation, the themes of health and body, work and responsibility, the emotional tone in the dream, and how the symbol concludes in the dream should be evaluated together.