I came to the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم and his Companions were sitting as if they had birds on their heads. I saluted and sat down. The desert Arabs then came from here and there. They asked: Messenger of Allah, should we make use of medical treatment? He replied: Make use of medical treatment, for Allah has not made a disease without appointing a remedy for it, with the exception of one disease, namely old age.

The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم came to visit me, accompanied by Ali who was convalescing. We had some ripe dates hung up. The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم got up and began to eat from them. Ali رضی اللہ عنہ also got up to eat, but the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said repeatedly to Ali رضی اللہ عنہ: Stop, Ali رضی اللہ عنہ, for you are convalescing, and Ali رضی اللہ عنہ stopped. She said: I then prepared some barley and beer-root and brought it. The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم then said: Take some of this, Ali رضی اللہ عنہ, for it will be more beneficial for you. Abu Dawud said: The narrator Harun said: al-Adawiyyah (i.e. Umm al-Mundhar).

The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: The best medical treatment you apply is cupping.

The maid-servant of the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم, said: No one complained to the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم of a headache but he told him to get himself cupped, or of a pain in his legs but he told him to dye them with henna.

The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم used to have himself cupped on the top of his head and between his shoulders, and that he used to say: If anyone pours out any of his blood, he will not suffer if he applies no medical treatment for anything.

The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم had himself cupped three times in the veins at the sides of the neck and on the shoulder. Mamar said: I got myself cupped, and I lost my memory so much so that I was instructed Surat al-Fatihah by others in my prayer. He had himself cupped at the top of his head.

The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: If anyone has himself cupped on the 17th, 19th and 21st it will be a remedy for every disease.

Her father used to forbid his family to have themselves cupped on a Tuesday, and used to assert on the authority of the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم that Tuesday is the day of blood in which there is an hour when it does not stop.

The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم had himself cupped above the thigh for a contusion from which he suffered.

The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم sent a physician to Ubayy (Ibn Kab) رضی اللہ عنہ , and he cut his vein.

The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم forbade to cauterise; we cauterised but they (cauterisation) did not benefit us, nor proved useful for us. Abu Dawud said: He used to hear the salutation of the angels: When he cauterized, it stopped. When he abandoned, it returned to him.

The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم cauterized Saad bin Muadh from the wound of an arrow.

The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم snuffed medicine.

The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم was asked about a charm for one who is possessed (nashrah). He replied: It pertains to the work of the devil.

I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم say: If I drink an antidote, or tie an amulet, or compose poetry, I am the type who does not care what he does. Abu Dawud said: This was peculiar to the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم, but some people have allowed to use it, i.e. antidote.

The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم prohibited unclean medicine.

When a physician consulted the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم about putting frogs in medicine, he forbade him to kill them.

The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم as saying: If anyone drinks poison, the poison will be in his hand (on the Day of Judgement) and he will drink it in Hell-fire and he will live in it eternally.

He asked the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم about wine, but he forbade it. He again asked him, but he forbade him. He said to him: Prophet of Allah, it is a medicine. The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: No it is a disease.

The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: Allah has sent down both the disease and the cure, and He has appointed a cure for every disease, so treat yourselves medically, but use nothing unlawful.

I suffered from an illness. The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم came to pay a visit to me. He put his hands between my nipples and I felt its coolness at my heart. He said: You are a man suffering from heart sickness. Go to al-Harith ibn Kaladah, brother of Thaqif. He is a man who gives medical treatment. He should take seven ajwah dates of Madina and grind them with their kernels, and then put them into your mouth.

The prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم as saying: He who has a morning meal of seven ‘Ajwah dates will not suffer from any harm that day through poison or magic.

I brought my son to the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم while I had compressed his uvula for its swelling. He said: Why do you afflict your children by squeezing for a swelling in the Uvula ? Apply this Indian aloes wood, for it contain seven types of remedies, among them being a remedy for pleurisy. It is applied through the nose for a swelling of the uvula poured into the side of the mouth for pleurisy. Abu Dawud said: By aloes wood he meant costus.

The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: Wear your white garments, for they are among your best garments, and shroud your dead in them. Among the best types of collyrium you use is antimony (ithmid): it clears the vision and makes the hair sprout.

The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم as saying: The evil is genuine.