Healing

Healing is a power possessed by whitelighters, in which a warm golden light shines from their hands as they heal injuries and wounds on others. It also mends their charges' torn clothes. This ability has also been shown to heal objects as well, such as when Leo used them on some plumbing pipes and the sign for P3. There are excep



tions however; the inability to heal self-inflicted wounds such as drunkenness, demons, and being unable to heal the dead or animals. Whitelighters are also only able to heal if they are supposed to. If they heal someone they are forbidden by the Elders to help, their wings can be clipped as punishment, like when Leo healed Piper when she had Oroya Fever. The Elders told Leo not to heal her but he did and when the Elders found out, they clipped his wings/temporarily suspended him.

Paige Matthews, being only half whitelighter, did not have the power to heal for several years, until she admitted her love for future husband Henry Mitchell during a bank robbery ("Payback's A Witch"). Before she found her trigger, she had to channel her healing abilities through Leo. The trigger for this power is love and conversely the trigger for the counterpart power is hate.

List of Users

 * Leo Wyatt
 * Paige Matthews - developed this power over time. On one occasion she combined her power with Leo's to heal Cole when she first became a Charmed One. ("Charmed Again Part 2")And then again when he shot by a Darklighter (Charmed and Dangerous)
 * Wyatt Halliwell
 * Chris Halliwell
 * Elders
 * The Source (through Demonic Projection)
 * Cole Turner (through Demonic Projection)
 * Whitelighters
 * Avatars
 * Mikelle - Paige's charge who became a whitelighter after she was murdered by a darklighter. ("The Jung and the Restless")
 * Gideon (even as a Dark Elder)
 * Piper Halliwell - switched powers with Leo twice. ("Love Hurts", "Siren Song")
 * Natalie

Behind the Scenes

 * In the earlier seasons, a little lightbulb would be used for the healing light. The lightbulb would be attached to palm of the actor's hand and the wire (which would be hidden in the sleeve) was connected to a little power box in the back pockets of the actor's pants or in a jacket. For some shots, the light was added by computer. Paige's healing in season 8 was all done by computer, most noticeably, by the coloring and opacity of the light looking unnatural.
 * A proper name for this power would be Biokinesis.