Potion

Restore Health Potions

Restore Health potions instantly heal 25 to 150 points of Health, and the Ultimate tier refills it completely. The most common lifesaver in Skyrim.

Restore Health potions are the bread and butter of every adventurer’s pack. Drinking one heals you instantly, from 25 points with a Potion of Minor Healing up to 150 with Extreme Healing, while the Potion of Ultimate Healing tops your Health off completely. Warriors, archers and mages alike rely on them when a fight turns ugly, and they are often the difference between finishing a dungeon and reloading.

All tiers

Name	Effect	Value	Weight	Form ID
Potion of Minor Healing	Restores 25 points of Health	17	0.5	0003EADD
Potion of Healing	Restores 50 points of Health	36	0.5	0003EADE
Potion of Plentiful Healing	Restores 75 points of Health	57	0.5	0003EADF
Potion of Vigorous Healing	Restores 100 points of Health	79	0.5	0003EAE3
Potion of Extreme Healing	Restores 150 points of Health	123	0.5	00039BE4
Potion of Ultimate Healing	Completely restores Health	251	0.5	00039BE5

Where to find them

These are ordinary leveled potions. You can buy them from merchants who stock potions, and they turn up as loot in the world and in the inventories of other characters. Because they are leveled, the stronger tiers become more common as the Dragonborn gains levels. Every bottle weighs 0.5.

Brewing your own

Restore Health is one of the effects with the widest choice of ingredients for the Alchemy skill: Blisterwort, Blue Dartwing, Blue Mountain Flower, Butterfly Wing, Charred Skeever Hide, Daedra Heart, Eye of Sabre Cat, Imp Stool, Rock Warbler Egg, Swamp Fungal Pod and Wheat.

Mixing at an alchemy lab follows the usual rule: two or more ingredients must share an effect before anything useful comes out. Eating an ingredient reveals one of its properties (more with the Experimenter perk), and once an effect is known you can pick it straight from the lab menu instead of guessing.

Tips

Since the effect is instant, keep a few on a favorite slot for emergencies. For slow, steady recovery, look at Regenerate Health Potions; to raise your maximum, see Fortify Health Potions.

Where to find it

Sold by merchants who stock potions
Random loot in the world and on characters, leveled to the player
Can be brewed with the Alchemy skill

Crafting materials

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Sources checked: Skyrim/DLC game files (potion records: effects, weights, IDs); Elder Scrolls Fandom potion articles (prices, locations)