سَمِعْتُ الرِّضَا ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ الْهِنْدَبَاءُ شِفَاءٌ مِنْ أَلْفِ دَاءٍ مَا مِنْ دَاءٍ فِي جَوْفِ ابْنِ آدَمَ إِلَّا قَمَعَهُ الْهِنْدَبَاءُ قَالَ وَ دَعَا بِهِ يَوْماً لِبَعْضِ الْحَشَمِ وَ كَانَ تَأْخُذُهُ الْحُمَّى وَ الصُّدَاعُ فَأَمَرَ أَنْ يُدَقَّ وَ صَيَّرَهُ عَلَى قِرْطَاسٍ وَ صَبَّ عَلَيْهِ دُهْنَ الْبَنَفْسَجِ وَ وَضَعَهُ عَلَى جَبِينِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَمَا إِنَّهُ يَذْهَبُ بِالْحُمَّى وَ يَنْفَعُ مِنَ الصُّدَاعِ وَ يَذْهَبُ بِهِ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Muhammad Bin Ismail who said, ‘I heard Al-Reza<sup>asws</sup> saying: ‘The endive is a healing from a thousand illnesses. There is none from an illness in the inside of a son of Adam<sup>as</sup> except that the endive suppresses it’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And one day he<sup>asws</sup> called for it for one of the servants, and the fever had seized him, and the headache. So he<sup>asws</sup> ordered that it (endive) should be pounded and rendered upon a paper, and the viola oil be poured over it, and for it to be placed upon his forehead. Then he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘But, it removes the fever and benefits from the headache, and eleminates it’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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