Linking dream interpretation to treatment with siddur and shab

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: One of the dream interpreters interpreted a dream of treatment, stating that one should take a kilo of siddur, a kilo of shab, and a kilo of salt. Then he takes from it. He says: One of the dream interpreters interpreted a dream of treatment, stating that one should take

Answer:
take a kilo of siddur, a kilo of shab, and a kilo of salt. This is an innovation in interpretation mixed with medicine; the interpretation is not part of the medicine. Interpretation is interpretation, and treatment is treatment, distinct from interpretation. So this is an innovation in reality, and it is not permissible to promote this among the people. This person must be prevented from this deception of the people. There is no connection between interpretation and treatment. Treatment is one thing, and interpretation is another. The siddur mentioned by the scholars, as in Fath al-Ma'rid and others, is used to treat leprosy. One takes seven siddur leaves and a piece of shab, grinds them, puts them in water, and bathes with it. This is mentioned in Fath al-Ma'rid and others. As for linking this dream interpretation to it, that is corruption and deception of the people.