Islamic Interpretation
In a dream, a pharmacy signifies healing, relief, and recovery from illness, as well as access to remedies for physical, moral, and spiritual problems. Taking medicine represents self-correction, reforming one’s behavior, and fulfilling religious duties. If a person takes medicine to cure an illness, it means he will amend his conduct and return to what is right, and if the medicine symbolizes knowledge, it indicates benefiting from learning and accepting sincere advice. Refusing to take medicine shows deviation from the path of God, neglect of guidance, and turning instead to worldly fortune or personal desires. Medicine also symbolizes an inkwell, linking healing to knowledge and wisdom. Licking medicine with the index finger means declaring the truth openly, or gaining profit from the direction toward which the finger points in the dream. Swallowing powdered medicine signifies greed, self-centeredness, seclusion, or withdrawal from people. Drinking liquid medicine indicates lawful profits and beneficial gains. Swallowing pills means compelling a sinner to repent, guiding someone back to the straight path, or taking responsibility for educating an ignorant person. If a woman applies medicinal makeup, it denotes menstruation, while for an unmarried girl it signifies marriage, and for a barren woman it foretells childbirth. Using a suppository represents spying, intrusion, or listening secretly. Taking a laxative means striving to correct one’s religious practice or cleansing oneself from impurities, and the outcome depends on the strength of the medicine. Seeking good health reflects sincere efforts to improve one’s life, faith, and character, and the same meaning applies to using eye ointment, which indicates seeking clarity and guidance. Yellow medicine symbolizes illness or weakness, while a laxative represents healing for the sick and a warning for the healthy to reform themselves. Bitter medicine signifies fever followed by relief, while pleasant-tasting medicine benefits the wealthy but may be harmful or burdensome for the poor. Interpreting healing through medicine differs from recovery without medicine, as the former emphasizes effort, discipline, and conscious correction, whereas the latter points to divine relief without means.