Taking medicine, for one who is sick and to whom the medicine is suited, is a bad sign. That also applies to phlebotomy and cupping.
For one who 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 his pavilion was splattered with his blood.
The next morning, two black men entered upon him and killed him, and his pavilion was splattered with 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 his release from prison.
One of the dream interpreters said: The person who dreams that he is treated with cupping will be appointed as a governor or will be entrusted with something or will be subject to a contract based on conditions or he 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, this represents his fortune, and if he is a young man, this represents his enemy who is writing something a document stipulating conditions anddebts.If a man dreams that he treats someone else with cupping, he will rise in status.
If he treats a young man with cupping, he will prevail over his enemy. If an old man opens his vein, he will hear something negative from a friend. If a young man opens his vein lengthways, he will hear slander from his enemy; if he opens his vein crosswise, oneof his relatives will die, because the venesection damages the vein and hardly ever leaves it sound.I
n my view, the phlebotomist does harm to the patient in all cases,even if the person doing it is known, because people say to the one who harms his enemy and tries to remove him from his post: He let the blood of so and so, meaning that he harmed him a great deal and prevented him from reaching his goal.
