Healing

Healing is an ability used by angels to repair the physical damage of others, usually humans. An angels ability to heal or resurrect the dead is typically tied to Heaven, if an angel is cut-off from Heaven in some fashion they may lose the ability to heal or resurrect.

Episodes

4.01 Lazarus Rising

As a side effect of Dean being resurrected by Castiel, all of his past wounds have been healed. As he relates to Sam in 4.05 Monster Movie, he has no more bullet wounds, knife cuts, or fingers left off-angled from old breaks. He mentions that his skin is as smooth as a newborn's, as well as theorizing that with his new body he is once again a virgin.

4.16 On the Head of a Pin

After Alastair breaks free from the devil's trap and severely injures Dean, Sam demands that Castiel heal his brother, but is initially refused. After learning of Uriel's betrayal and killing him with the aid of Anna, Castiel returns to the hospital and heals Dean.

4.20 The Rapture

When Jimmy Novak is mortally wounded, he pleads with Castiel to leave his daughter and let him be his vessel. After Castiel warns him of the toll it will be, Jimmy accepts and is possessed, whereupon his wound is healed.

5.01 Sympathy for the Devil

With Dean's continued refusal to become Michael's vessel, Zachariah first offers to heal Bobby of his paralysis. When Dean still refuses, Zachariah gives him stage 4 stomach cancer, and removes Sam's lungs. But with Castiel's sudden arrival, claiming to have been resurrected by God, he demands that Zachariah put Sam and Dean back together and leave, which Zachariah reluctantly does.

5.02 Good God, Y'All

Castiel reveals to Bobby that his powers are derived from Heaven, and with him being cut-off, certain abilities are longer at his disposal, such as healing Bobby's paralysis.

5.16 Dark Side of the Moon

After Sam and Dean are shot and killed by Walt and Roy, their journey in Heaven takes them to the "Garden", where they meet an angel named Joshua, who tells them to stop looking for God, as they will not find him. Also, telling them of their many prior deaths and how this time he has been given instruction for Sam and Dean to remember before sending them back to earth in their restored bodies.

5.22 Swan Song

After Castiel is brought back to life by God, he proceeds to heal Dean of all his wounds incurred by Lucifer and resurrects Bobby and.

6.19 Mommy Dearest

After being bitten on the neck by Eve, Dean, believing to have been turned into a Jefferson Starships, asks Castiel to "clear that up too" when healing his neck wound.

6.21 Let It Bleed

After a demon possessing Lisa stabs itself in the stomach, Dean rushes Lisa to a hospital after exorcising the demon. At the hospital Castiel places his hand on her forehead, healing her in addition to removing any memories of Dean from her and Ben's mind at Dean's request.

7.01 Meet the New Boss

Believing himself to be the new "God", while walking the streets Castiel heals a homeless man of his blindness.

7.17 The Born-Again Identity

Desperate to save Sam from his hallucinations, Dean receives a call from a fellow hunter named Mackey who relates to him of a man named Emmanuel Allen that can heal the sick, telling Dean of his right eye being cured of it's blindness.

Upon learning Emmanuel is an amnesiac Castiel, Dean takes him to the hospital where Sam is staying, where after confronting demons, Castiel remembers his true identity. Unable to cure Sam of his insanity, as an act of penance for destroying Sam's mental wall, Castiel transfers the trauma from the Cage to himself, becoming catatonic in the process.

8.08 Hunteri Heroici

After an orderly is found with a stab wound to the stomach, Castiel heals him, allowing Dean to question him about the missing Fred Jones.

8.17 Goodbye Stranger

When Castiel's mind is rebooted from coming into contact with the angel tablet, he goes on to heal Dean of the wounds incurred by Castiel nearly beating him to death.

9.01 I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here

Due to the nature of Sam's failing health and his own injures from the Fall, the angel Ezekiel, proposes to Dean he posses Sam to heal him from the inside out, as well as allow himself to heal, and when they are both healthy he will vacate Sam's body. Desperate, a reluctant Dean agrees and together they are able to trick Sam into consenting to being a vessel, unbeknownst to Sam.

9.03 I'm No Angel

After being tortured and stabbed by April Kelly, Ezekiel heals Castiel of all his cuts and knife wounds.

9.05 Dog Dean Afternoon

When Sam receives a severe neck wound from Chef Leo, Gadreel briefly takes over and heals the wound, erasing Sam's memory of the attack as well.

9.10 Road Trip

Castiel heals the puncture marks in Sam's head after their attempt with Crowley to hack Gadreel's brain to expel him from Sam's body.

9.11 First Born

Castiel continues the healing process which was begun by Gadreel to heal the internal burns from Sam's attempt at the demon trials.

Learning of the residual grace from Gadreel's possession is fading each time he is healed by Castiel, they attempt to extract what remains be used to track the angel. However, the extraction proves to be too much, and in an act of compassion, Castiel heals Sam of his wounds completely, removing the remaining grace in the process.

9.18 Meta Fiction

Castiel is drawn to a warehouse by the Horn of Gabriel, where he finds angel upon angel slaughtered in a room. He comes across an injured angel named Hannah, and heals her of her wounds.

9.23 Do You Believe in Miracles?

After Gadreel is attacked by Dean with the First Blade, Castiel and Sam find him in a field outside the Bunker. As Castiel goes to heal him, Gadreel initially refuses due to the toll it would take on Castiel's fading grace, but Castiel goes forward and heals him.

Seeking Crowley's aid in tracking down Metatron, Dean is shown a camera phone video of Metatron, as a homeless man, healing a woman who had been hit by a car. Later at a homeless encampment, Metatron heals a man named George of his diabetes (filling his flask to celebrate with as well).

10.02 Reichenbach

When he is unable to heal his own chest wound himself, Castiel is aided by Hannah who offers to help him.

Dean is sitting at a piano in a bar, playing a few notes but his mind is elsewhere. He takes out the First Blade and slices open his left palm. It instantly heals. Later when confronting Cole Trenton in the bar parking lot, his cheek is cut, but like his hand heals instantly.

10.03 Soul Survivor

When Castiel is severely injured by the angel Adina, Crowley arrives and removes the angel's grace and kills her. Giving her grace to Castiel, which heals him of all his wounds.

10.17 Inside Man

After breaking Metatron out of Heaven's jail, Castiel pulls out his angel blade, slices Metatron’s throat open, and takes his grace in a little glass jar. Castiel goes on to heal Metaton's throat wound, before Sam shoots him in the leg.

10.18 Book of the Damned

Charlie asks if Castiel can heal her carpel tunnel and bullet wound, which Castiel gladly obliges. He does suggest that Charlie continue wearing her wrist brace at night.

10.20 Angel Heart

Due to Tamiel feeding off Amelia Novak's soul, Castiel is unable to heal her of the damage her body has been through.

11.10 The Devil in the Details

Castiel reveals to Dean he is suffering from smiting sickness due to proximity to the angel's attack on Amara, and is unable to heal him of it. Telling him he needs to get far away from ground zero.

11.18 Hell's Angel

Reeling from the mass smiting by the combined forces of Heaven, Amara is found by Rowena who goes on to use magic to heal Amara's body back to full strength. An act which Rowena soon regrets after witnessing the Darkness' power.

11.22 We Happy Few

After rescuing Lucifer from Amara, a beaten a bloody Lucifer is healed by Chuck. Which Lucifer was not happy about and resented.

11.23 Alpha and Omega

When Dean is able to appeal to Amara's love for her brother, she teleports the mortally wounded Chuck to the garden where the two reconcile, with Amara placing her hand on his chest and healing him of his wounds.

12.02 Mamma Mia

At Needham Asylum, Crowley and Rowena attempt to trap Lucifer to send him back to the Cage. Crowley attempts to damage Lucifer's vessel severely enough that it is no longer suitable to hold Lucifer by throwing sulfuric acid on him. As Vince Vincente's face begins to burn away, Lucifer is able to power up and heals his vessel of it's wounds before Rowena could send him back.

12.03 The Foundry

Dean mentions that Castiel healed Sam's blow torched "s'mores foot" and they should get back to hunting.

While tracking Lucifer, Castiel and Crowley are directed towards Vince Vincente's sister, Wendy. Whom they learn Lucifer promised to Vince he would heal and give her back the use of her legs.

12.07 Rock Never Dies

After being banished to the bottom of the ocean in his deteriorating vessel by Rowena, Lucifer is summoned to the basement of a teenager through his fossilized feather. Placing the fossil on his chest, he is engulfed in a bright light and his vessel is healed of all deterioration.

12.10 Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets

In a confrontation with Ishim, Lily Sunder is slashed across her side by Castiel. After escaping, Lily is able to tap into her Enochian magic and heal the wound.

At Ishim's safe house, Castiel remains with Ishim to heal his wound, which weakens him as Sam and Dean search for Lily.

12.12 Stuck in the Middle (With You)

As Castiel is slowly and painfully dying from being stabbed with the Lance of Michael by Ramiel, he is saved by Crowley he realized the magic was in the rune work and breaks the lance in two. Causing Castiel's blackened wound to heal instantly in a flash of bright light.

12.19 The Future

Before Dagon can deliver a killing blow to Castiel, the unborn Nephilim child of Kelly Kline transfers his power to Castiel. As it courses through him, all of Castiel's wounds are healed before he incinerates Dagon.

Before leaving with Kelly, Castiel heals Dean's broken arm from his confrontation with Dagon.

12.23 All Along the Watchtower

After seeing that Dean has injured his knee, Castiel heals him.

13.07 War of the Worlds

Once Michael extracts most of Lucifer's grace, he heals his neck wound used to remove it.

13.16 Scoobynatural

When Shaggy Rogers breaks his arm falling out a window, Castiel secretly heals the break before he and the Winchesters are sent back to the real world.

13.18 Bring 'em Back Alive

Seeing that Gabriel is severely damaged due to Asmodeus's torture, Sam ask Castiel to heal him, but he is unable to as lower angels can not heal archangels.

When confronted by Asmodeus in the Bunker, Gabriel musters up all his energy, which heals him of all his wounds before killing Asmodeus.

13.21 Beat the Devil

When Rowena angers Lucifer enough with the revelation Jack is in Apocalypse World, he is able to break his bindings and heal his neck wound to prevent anymore grace from leaking out.

13.23 Let the Good Times Roll

After stealing Jack's grace, Lucifer places his hand on Jack's neck, healing the wound.

See also

• Faith Healer