Islamic Interpretation
Taking medicine in a dream signifies self-correction or fulfilling religious duties. For an illness, it denotes amending one's conduct. If linked to knowledge, it means benefiting from learning and heeding good counsel. Refusing medicine indicates straying from God's path and prioritizing worldly fortune. Medicine can also symbolize an inkwell. Licking medicine with the index finger signifies proclaiming truth or gaining profit from the direction pointed. Swallowing medicinal powder denotes greed, self-absorption, or withdrawal. Drinking liquid medicine means profits. Swallowing pills signifies compelling a sinner to reform, repent, or guiding an ignorant person. A woman applying medicinal makeup represents menstruation; for an unwed girl, marriage; for a barren woman, a child. Inserting a suppository denotes spying. Taking a laxative means striving to correct religious devotion or cleansing impurities; success depends on the medicine's potency. Seeking good health reflects efforts to improve one's life. Using eye ointment carries similar meaning. Yellow medicine signifies illness. A laxative means cure for the sick and a warning for the healthy to reform. Bad-tasting medicine means fever followed by chills. Good-tasting medicine benefits the wealthy but harms the poor. Recovery with medicine is interpreted differently from recovery without it.