Healing Magic

**Healing Magic** is a branch of magic devoted to improving the health of living creatures. Healers and Mediwizards were professionally trained in this branch of magic. There were many different types of spells a vast group of potions with a veriety of effects dedicated to healing.

## Description

Healing Magic is an advance branch of magic utilized for healing others, being capable of curing all sorts of wounds and diseases. Healers, should they porve themselves skilled and powerful enough, are capable of controlling famine, plague, and bau. This may only be those of Egyptian Magicians following the path of Sekhmet, however Divine Healers such as Apollo and Perseus have shown inducing famine and plagues on massive scales.

## Illness and Disability

Magicals had the power to correct or override 'mundane' nature, but not 'magical' nature. Therefore, a magical could catch anything a regular mortal might catch, but they can cure all of it; they could also comfortably survive a scorpion sting that might kill an ordinary mortal, whereas they might die if bitten by a Venomous Tentacula. Similarly, bones broken in non-magical accidents such as falls or fist fights could be mended by magic.

Thus it can be seen that while magicals had an enviable head start over ordinary mortals in dealing with the flu, and all manner of serious injuries, they had to deal with problems that such mortals never faced. Not only was the mortal world free of such perils as Devil's Snare and Blast-Ended Skrewts, the Statute of Secrecy had also kept mortals free from contact with any magical who could pass on Dragon Pox (as the name implies, originally contracted by magicals working closely with Peruvian Vipertooths) or spattergroit.

## Healing Spell

A Healing spell was a spell whose principle usage was to magically improve the physical condition of the living target. Healing spells may have fallen under multiple categories, such charms (*Episkey*), vanishments (*Anapneo* and *Ossio Dispersimus*), conjurations (Bandaging Charm), or others. The Mending Charm was not meant to be used on flesh wounds, as attempting so may have created serious scars.

## Medication

Magical medication normally related to healing potions, though there were other medications that existed too (such as chocolate)

### Bubotuber Pus

The pus from the magical Bubotuber plant was a substance which was highly valuable due to its acne-curing properties, and was also an ingredient in the Healing Potion.

### Chocolate

Chocolate had special properties. Not only did it make a wonderful treat, but it also served as a particularly powerful antidote for the chilling effect produced by contact with Dementors.

### Dittany

Dittany was a powerful healing herb and restorative. Its essence could be applied topically to heal moderate to shallow wounds, including those sustained from Splinching. Dittany could also be mixed with powdered silver to seal werewolf bites.

### Phoenix Tears

Phoenix tears had immense healing powers. It was the only known cure for Basilisk venom, and it can also cure Acromantula venom. It was also capable of reviving a person from any injury, even if the person was at the brink of death, similar to unicorn blood (without the cursed side-effects).

## Occupations

Magical doctors were known as Healers and Mediwizards. While small infirmaries existed, such as the Hogwarts Hospital Wing run by Madame Pomfrey, the central establishment in England for this purpose was St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, where various magical diseases, such as "Dragon Pox", "spattergroit", and "Vanishing Sickness" were treated.

## Known Healers

### Divine Healers

* Apollo
* Asclepius
* Merlin Ambrosious
* Raphael
* Arion
* Hygieia
* Perseus Lykiaos
* Morgana le Fay
* Will Solace
* Krystal
* Eir
* Freya
* Thoth
* Sekhmet
* Isis

### Mortal Healers

* Poppy Pomfrey
* Zia Rashid
* Severus Snape
* Narcissa Malfoy

## See Also

* Biokinesis
* Nosokinesis
* Vitakinesis
* Healing Spells