Healing is a core survival mechanic in Where Winds Meet, and understanding how illness, injuries, and recovery work is crucial for anyone exploring dangerous regions or engaging in tough combat encounters. Whether you fall from a cliff, push too far into corrupted zones, or take damage while fighting, your character can develop sickness, injuries, and long-term debuffs that directly affect your performance.
1. What is Illness?
As you progress through the world, you’ll encounter hazards that can make your character sick or injured. Illness reduces your Constitution, which is tied directly to your core attributes and overall power. If the Constitution drops, you’ll notice debuffs.
Possible Constitution Debuffs
- Lower damage output
- Reduced endurance
- Slower stamina recovery
- Increased vulnerability in combat
- Persistent health loss during exploration
Some conditions worsen over time, turning minor issues into debilitating ailments if not treated. That’s why healing immediately — either through other players or via the Evercare Clinic — is essential.
2. Can You Self-Heal?
Where Winds Meet offers different ways to heal illness. You can restore HP through items or healing abilities, but most illnesses, injuries, and Constitution debuffs cannot be self-treated. Some effects can vary off on their own, like Sprain, but you need to be sure of curing these debuffs as they can hold down your exploration and combat.
Options to Heal Illness
- Visit the Evercare Clinic and pay to be treated.
- Get healed by another player (Online Mode).
Because of this, knowing where the clinic is located and how to request help from players is a key part of survival.
Environmental Self-Healing
Some effects, like Mental Breakdown or Miasma, will require you to go to a Clinic or use an environment for healing. Here is how to use the environment to heal different illnesses and effects.
- Mental Breakdown: Stand in deep, flowing water for a period of time.
- Miasma Affliction: Stand near a fire for a short while.
- Sprain: Avoid fall damage and standing on ledges for about an hour.
- Alcohol Poisoning: Wait out the debuff and avoid drinking alcohol for a few minutes.
3. Healing Illness and Injuries
Illness effects
Your character can develop a range of conditions while exploring. Once these occur, the debuff stays permanently active until properly cured.
Illness Conditions
- Sprains from falls
- Bone shifts from hard landings
- Organ damage
- Meridian blockages
- Muscle strain
- Environmental disease
Heal Through Other Players (Online Mode)
Players in Online Mode can heal you if they have selected the Doctor Career. Doctor players will use prescriptions, shields, and techniques during the treatment process. The better their Mastery, the more likely they are to succeed.
Healing From Other Players (Online) Mechanics
- Request help from another player.
- The Doctor must accept your request.
- A healing mini-game begins where they must treat your illness.
- You cannot heal yourself even if you choose the Doctor Career — treatment must come from another player.
Heal at the Evercare Clinic (Single-Player Mode)
Evercare Clinic Location
If you’re playing Solo Mode or don’t want to rely on others, your only option is the Evercare Clinic.
Evercare Clinic Location
- Midwestern Qinghe
- North of Moonveil Mountain
- South of Blissful Retreat
You can also fast travel once you unlock the nearby Boundary Stone.
Evercare Clinic NPC and Price
- Yao Yaoyao runs the clinic and appears in the main story.
- She cures all illnesses and injuries.
- Her healing costs 10,000 coins per treatment.
She also offers upgrades to your medicine chest, increasing the number of flasks you can carry. This makes her one of the most important NPCs in the game.
4. How the Healing System Works
Where Winds Meet uses a system similar to Elden Ring. Because of this, secondary healing tools like the Panacea Fan become valuable. They allow you to top up HP without consuming crafting ingredients.
Key Healing Mechanics
- You have limited healing flasks.
- Flasks replenish when you rest at specific points.
- Refilling flasks consumes ingredients you’ve collected.
- Without materials, you cannot restore healing charges.
- Running out of ingredients disables HP recovery.
- Gathering herbs and resources is essential for survival.
5. How to Heal Illness Step-by-Step
Clinic NPC
Different types of buffs and Illnesses can affect your playthrough, from sprains and bone fractures/broken bones, to dislocations, organ or meridian damage, and disease‑type conditions such as blood dysentery, erysipelas, or Wind‑Damp Bi Syndrome. They directly affect your character’s Constitution, reducing your endurance recovery, mobility, health regeneration, qi flow, or resistance depending on which body slot (Muscles, Organs, Meridians, Mind) is affected.
Using the Clinic is straightforward and will cure all the debuffs and restore Constitution, but you will need to pay for using this service.
How to Use the Clinic
- Travel to the Evercare Clinic.
- Speak with Yao Yaoyao.
- Pay the 10,000 coins fee.
- All illnesses and injuries are removed instantly.
- Constitution returns to normal.
Illness and Constitution Effects
The UI can be overwhelming, and many players don’t know where illness details are shown. For example, A muscle sprain reduces Endurance by 5%, making movement and fighting harder.
Steps to Check Constitution
- Open the Menu.
- Select Develop.
- Focus on the Constitution.
- Press Detail on the right side under Current Build.
- You’ll see three tabs: Attributes, Constitution, Honor
- Open the Constitution tab. Here you can see: Mind conditions, Organ illnesses, Meridian issues, Muscle injuries
7. Healing Penalties and Status Effects
Leaving an illness untreated can cause different conditions, and healing early prevents progression into more dangerous states.
- Worsened conditions
- Stacking debuffs
- Severe survival disadvantages
- Slower stamina recovery
- Constant HP drain
- More dangerous falls
- Higher risk of death in exploration zones
Healing Penalties Examples
- Hard landings can cause bone shift, triggering severe ailments.
- Minor sprains affect stamina and endurance if you ignore safe landing techniques.
- Diseases can evolve into more serious conditions if neglected.
8. Illness Mini-Game (For Doctor Career Players)
Illness mini-game
When healing a player or NPC, a treatment mini-game begins. If you wish to master the minigames and learn how to win every match, be sure to check out our Healer profession guide.
What is the Illness Mini-Game?
When treating an illness in Where Winds Meet, you first choose the ailment you want to address. This triggers a turn-based card mini-game where your goal is to reduce the Affliction Severity to zero while keeping your Vital Energy safe. If your Vital Energy (HP) reaches zero during treatment, the healing attempt fails.
Practice With Treat the Goose Quest
The Treat the Goose quest serves as a practice run for the mini-game. You learn to cure a goose using the real healing mechanics: select prescription cards carefully, manage your Vital Energy, and monitor the illness gauge. Failing the mini-game requires you to wait until the next day to retry, reinforcing careful planning and timing.
How to Improve Illness Healing Skill
You can increase your healing proficiency over time by:
- Using Healer Giftboxes to gain bonuses
- Study/Use Career Notebooks for skill insights
- Regular practice through mini-games or quests
9. How to Heal Other Players
Healing Other Players
- Use Wind Sense to scan and identify the patient’s illness.
- The game will recommend a healing method: Physiotherapy, Qi Therapy.
- Follow the suggested treatment or choose manually.
- If your Mastery is high, use Quick Treatment to skip the mini-game.
- Low Mastery requires full treatment with card play.
Treatment Details
- Illness remains contained for 10 rounds.
- After that, it becomes unstable and harder to treat.
- Average treatment time: 20 minutes.
- Choose prescription cards with care.
10. Prescriptions and Treatment Mechanics
Physiotherapy
In the treatment interface, you’ll manage several key systems:
Fireyheart
- Bottom-left corner indicator.
- Restores by starting a healing cycle.
- Determines how often you can use prescription cards.
Vital Energy
- Your health during treatment.
- Losing all Vital Energy results in failed treatment.
Affliction Severity
- The illness’s health bar.
- It must be reduced to zero to complete the cure.
Key Mechanics
- Each turn, illness attacks your Vital Energy.
- Use Inner Stillness or Visualization to shield and protect yourself.
- Stack shields using two defensive cards if the illness does serious damage.
- Allies can use prescriptions like Essential Remedies, Dietary Therapy. These weaken the illness over time.
Recommended Cards: Anesthesia Powder or Fasting Therapy, they trade a small amount of your Vital Energy for massive damage to the illness.
11. Tips For Healing Illness in Where Winds Meet
- Always carry ingredients to refill healing flasks.
- Visit Evercare Clinic frequently if exploring dangerous zones.
- Don’t ignore sprains or minor illnesses — they escalate.
- For Online Mode, rely on Doctor players when low on coins.
- Practice the healing mini-game early so you can treat others effectively.
