Treatment for Women Experiencing Menses

“I performed al-Hajj and my father and sister were with me. When we arrived in Makkah she began to experience Hayd (menses). She strongly regretted for fear of losing her al-Hajj. My father told me to see abu al-Hassan (a.s.), and say to him, ‘My father sends you his greeting of peace, and says that my young daughter with whom I have come for al-Hajj is experiencing Hayd (menses) and she is strongly mournful about it for fear of losing her al-Hajj. What is your instruction?’ I went to see abu al-Hassan (a.s.), and he (the Imam) was in Masjid al-Haram. I stood in front of him (the Imam). When he saw me he made a gesture. I went to him and said that my father sends him (the Imam) his greeting of peace. Then I conveyed my father’s message. He (the Imam) said, ‘Say my Salam (the phrase of offering greeting of peace) and tell him to ask her to take a piece of cotton with water from milk and place it inside. Her bleeding will stop and she can perform all of her acts for al- Hajj.’ I returned to my father and conveyed the instruction. He instructed her accordingly and her bleeding stopped. She attended all places for performing acts of al-Hajj. When she left Makkah after al-Hajj and sat in the carriage on camel-back, bleeding commenced.’”