Complete Guide To Healing In Phantom Blade Zero

Phantom Blade Zero: How To Heal Published Oct 28, 2026, 10:00 PM EDT Nick is a gaming news writer for TheGamer, and has been covering the games industry for over three years at sites such as Twinfinite, DotEsports and The Phrasemaker. Born and raised in a small town in Pennsylvania, Nick studied Media and Professional Communications at the University of Pittsburgh, refining his writing and fact-checking to ensure clarity and entertainment value in everything he writes. Phantom Blade Zero differs from other soulslikes in many ways, but healing is not one of them. Healing is limited throughout the game, though it's not as rare as in some other games in the genre like Dark Souls or Elden Ring. Tracking your healing is crucial, as is the timing of its use. You won't find medicine throughout the world, so saving it for the right moment is what will save your gameplay in the long run. While some weapons and accessories can give you small amounts of health, upgrading your health is the safest move. How To Heal The most effective way to heal in Phantom Blade Zero is by interacting with Bells. These reset all of your stats to their fullest, including your health, Sha Chi and Remnant Sparks. Unlike other soulslikes, you can use the bells without resetting the world around you, so if you get out of combat and want to heal, you can use one without making the enemies you just defeated respawn. This makes traversal much easier, but also incentivizes you to heal more often. As you learn in the tutorial, you can use your healing gourds to increase your health the most, but you start with only two uses before you have to return to a bell. Interacting with a bell restores your uses, refilling the meter for how much health you can access. Different medicines affect different stats. More health doesn't always mean the best choice. You also get other medicines you can use to heal, although they're not as effective as regular healing gourds. They aren't meant to heal you directly; instead, they increase the health you gain over time and improve your Sha Chi regeneration. How To Improve Healing While one healing gourd heals about half your starting health, it's not enough to get you through the end of the game. This is where upgrading your healing becomes crucial. You can find accessories throughout the game that impact your health and healing, and these can be crucial. One example is the Medicine Case you get from completing the Apprentice Healer quest. This increases the health gained from using a healing draught by 20 percent, which can be a game-changer for certain bosses you might be struggling with. Weigh your options as you collect more medicines like this, between using things like the Focus Pill and the Simmering Brew. Each item has benefits that may serve you differently depending on your play style and the enemies you're currently fighting.