Phantom Blade Zero medicine and healing items

How many Phantom Blade Zero medicine items are there?

There are 17 Phantom Blade Zero medicine items on IGN's list, running from Everflow to Vessel Restorative, and you can hold two of them at once. Every entry restores HP, and most add a second effect such as damage reduction, status resistance, or Sha-Chi recovery.

Read the list by job rather than by rank. Each entry is found once and stays in the bag after its uses run out, so the pair you slot decides whether a fight leans on burst healing or on a buff. The items page covers the other consumable categories, and the combat page explains the Sha-Chi bar that half of these entries touch.

What does each Phantom Blade Zero medicine item do?

The table below follows IGN's medicine list in alphabetical order and keeps each item's stated effect, its number of uses, and where a source says you can pick it up. A dash marks a cell where no source gives the detail, and the Healing Gourd row keeps both use counts.

Two rows need a note. Fextralife gives the Healing Gourd 2 uses where IGN lists 3, so both figures stay in the row. The Focus Pill is in a chest north of The Axemaster's Holding Cell bell in Weeping Creek Valley, behind a chain barricade that needs the Dread Axe, according to the Fextralife wiki.

The buffs are the rows worth reading twice. Forbidden Concoction adds 10% Phantom Edge damage for 15 seconds, Lament Draught adds 10% damage for 30 seconds, and Spirit-Returning Broth adds 10% Guard Break for 30 seconds. All three restore 20% HP, so they heal less than the Healing Gourd's 40% and pay you back in damage.

Where do you get Phantom Blade Zero medicine?

Most Phantom Blade Zero medicine comes from exploring: chests, hidden rooms, and rewards for finishing Tales, according to Game8. The Healing Gourd is handed over at the start, Green Serpent Brew arrives on your first visit to the Green Serpent House, and Longevity Tonic is the reward for the Kin Against Kin Tale in Meigu Lake.

The Healing Gourd carries the opening hours on its own, so 40% HP from one item is what keeps a first playthrough alive until a chest turns up something better. Green Serpent Brew is the first status cure you get, and it removes every status effect while holding resistance at 75% for 15 seconds.

Longevity Tonic is a Tale reward rather than a chest find, and its single use restores all HP, which makes it a boss-fight item. Game8 lists exploration, hidden areas and treasure chests as the other routes, so the walkthrough and the locations list are the two pages to keep open while you sweep a region.

• Green Serpent Brew: handed over on your first visit to the Green Serpent House.
• Focus Pill: chest north of The Axemaster's Holding Cell bell in Weeping Creek Valley, behind a barricade that needs the Dread Axe.
• Longevity Tonic: reward for the Kin Against Kin Tale in Meigu Lake.

How do you refill medicine uses in Phantom Blade Zero?

Rest at a Bell and every medicine you carry refills to its full use count, so running dry between fights is a matter of distance rather than supply. PC Gamer adds that a Bell also restores Phantom Edge spark uses, which makes each one worth the walk back.

Two slots is the whole loadout you fight with, and IGN notes that swapping a medicine out of combat does not refill its charges, so a swap is a decision about the fight ahead rather than a free reset. Depleted items stay in the bag, and Game8 says each one only has to be found once.

That makes the Bell the one stop for the whole kit: HP, medicine charges and Phantom Edge sparks all come back together, per PC Gamer's tips. The beginner tips page keeps the Bell habits in one list, and the Phantom Edges hub covers what those sparks get spent on.

Which Phantom Blade Zero medicine restores HP over time?

Six entries heal over a period instead of in one hit: Focus Pill, Green Serpent Brew and Simmering Brew each run 15 seconds alongside their buff, Kuye Dew and Merciful Dew run 10 seconds, and Phantom Ready restores roughly 60% over 6 seconds but breaks on a hit.

A slow heal is a commitment, because the HP arrives while you keep taking hits. Kuye Dew covers that with 20% damage reduction for 15 seconds on top of 40% HP over 10 seconds, and Merciful Dew is the pure version at 60% over 10 seconds. Phantom Ready carries the most risk of the group: one hit interrupts its 6-second recovery, so take it after a break rather than mid-combo.

Those three also decide your second slot in a long fight. An instant heal or a cleanse answers a boss that punishes standing still, while a heal over time suits a fight where you already know the dodge timings and only need to top up between phases.

How do you upgrade Phantom Blade Zero medicine?

Take medicine to the Apprentice Healer at the Green Serpent House in Pangzhen, where Apprentice Healer's Memories and Skilled Healer's Memories pay for each step, according to PC Gamer's upgrade guide. Game8 puts the ceiling at six levels, and the upgrades raise the HP, damage negation, and Sha-Chi that each item gives back.

The return is biggest on the item you never swap out. The Healing Gourd starts at 40% HP, so a step there shows up in every fight the Gourd travels into, while a situational buff item only pays out in the encounters you slot it for.

Extra uses count as much as a bigger percentage, because a Bell refills uses instead of refunding the item itself. The side quests page lists the Tales that hand out medicine, so a region sweep can pay for an upgrade and an item in the same run.

Which Phantom Blade Zero medicine should you equip?

Carry one instant heal and one effect heal. Longevity Tonic restores all HP from a single use, Vessel Restorative restores 70% and adds 50% natural Sha-Chi recovery for 5 seconds, and Forbidden Concoction trades a smaller heal for 10% more Phantom Edge damage across 15 seconds.

Our take: the Healing Gourd should keep one slot for most of the run, since 40% HP on a charge is the cheapest thing you own and a Bell refills it for nothing. Tune only the second slot: a cleanse for areas that stack Burn, Paralysis, Freeze and Bleed, an instant heal for a boss that punishes a slow recovery, or a damage buff when your Phantom Edge is doing the work.

Two entries cover most of that ground. Green Serpent Brew clears all status effects and holds resistance at 75% for 15 seconds, while Phantom Brew restores 50% HP and makes you intangible for 1 second, which is long enough to eat an attack you cannot dodge. The builds page pairs those picks with weapon loadouts.

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