He -asws said...

He -asws said: “What about the medication of my -asws father -asws , the ‘comprehensive medication’?” I replied: “O son of Rasool Allah -asws , what is it?” He said: “It is well known among the Shi ‘a.” I said: “My lord and master, I am one of them, so describe it to me so that I may use it as treatment and give it to people.” He -asws replied: “Take equal measures of saffron, pyrethrum, Indian nard, cardamom, henbane, white hellebore, and white pepper, and two parts of abarfiyun.

Grind them all finely, sieve in a piece of silk, and mix with twice its weight of honey which has had its froth removed. Give the one suffering from heart fluttering and coldness in the abdomen one grain to drink with a decoction of cumin water.

The narrator says: (Imam -asws said): Take seventy-two mithqal (appro. 4.25 grams) of dry ginger, forty of long pepper, and four each of heelweed (shina), cinnamon leaves (sadhaj), pepper, black myrobalan, preserved cardamom (qaqula murabban), walnut, bishop’s weed, sweet-pomegranate (Al-rumman al-hulw), seeds, fennel flower, and kirmani cumin (kammun). Grind and sieve them all. Then take six hundred mithqal of good ‘ fanidh’ and put it into a clay vessel and pour some water over it.

Light a low fire under it so the ‘fanidh’ melts. Then put it in a clean container and add to it the ground ingredients. Mix them well, then put it away in a bottle or green jar. Drink of it, the equivalent of a walnut and it will not disagree (with you), Allah -azwj Willing.