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One of the best parts of the Naruto series is the wide variety of techniques each character has access to. Although medical ninjutsu is not as flashy or destructive as regular ninjutsu or taijutsu, it is incredibly powerful in its own right. Medical ninjutsu requires the user to have incredible technical skills, which highlights the benefits of hard work, one of the core principles of being a shinobi.
From Sakura saving Naruto's life by manually pumping his heart to Tsunade healing massive numbers of the Shinobi Allied Forces during the Fourth Great Ninja War, there is no denying that medical ninjutsu has played an important role throughout the series. Therefore, here are the ten most powerful medical ninjutsu techniques shown throughout the Naruto series.
Disclaimer: This article contains spoilers for both the Naruto and Naruto Shippuden anime shows.
The Creation Rebirth Jutsu and nine other incredibly powerful medical ninjutsu techniques throughout the Naruto series
1) Ninja Art Creation Rebirth — Strength of a Hundred Technique
Tsunade's signature move and the most powerful medical ninjutsu technique in the series, the Ninja Art Creation Rebirth — Strength of a Hundred Technique, utilizes both immense chakra reserves and delicate chakra control developed during mastery of the Creation Rebirth technique. Although similar to Creation Rebirth, the Strength of a Hundred Technique allows the user to heal any injuries they acquire almost instantly without effort.
To use this jutsu, the shinobi must activate the Strength of a Hundred Seal, or Byakugou Seal, allowing the markings to cover their entire body. This then allows them to boost their physical strength and grants them almost unlimited usage of the Strength of a Hundred Technique.
2) Katsuyu: Immense Network Healing
For this technique, Katsuyu uses her special ability to split apart into smaller clones and attach herself to a shinobi. Once this is complete, the summoner, typically either Tsunade or Sakura, channels their chakra through Katsuyu. This allows the slugs to share the healing from the Strength of a Hundred Seal with whomever the slugs are attached to. Not only does the healing process fix injuries and restore stamina, but it also replenishes the patient's chakra reserves.
At the same time, this technique can be used no matter how far Katsuyu's slug clones are from the summoner. This makes the Immense Network Healing technique incredibly useful across a large battlefield, such as during the Fourth Great Ninja War.
3) Creation Rebirth Technique
The parent jutsu to the Strength of a Hundred Technique, the Creation Rebirth Technique, was seen as the pinnacle of medical ninjutsu at the time it was created. This technique allows the user to trigger the division of the body's cells, causing life-threatening injuries to be healed instantly. As a result, the user's lifespan is shortened due to the limited number of times the body's cells can divide.
What makes this technique different from the Strength of a Hundred Technique is the use of hand seals and conscious effort. Weaving the tiger handsign is crucial to activating the Creation Rebirth jutsu, while the Strength of a Hundred technique does not require any handsigns. This can be the difference between life and death on the battlefield since shinobi must use their hands for almost any combat technique in the series.
4) Healing Resuscitation Regeneration Technique
Like the techniques listed above, the Healing Resuscitation Regeneration Technique heals fatal injuries sustained during battle. To perform this technique, an entire intensive care unit comprised of medical shinobi trained with precise chakra control is necessary. The entire process takes multiple hours, but it also has a very low success rate due to how difficult the procedure is.
Prior to Tsunade's creation of the Creation Rebirth technique, the Healing Resuscitation Regeneration Technique was the only way to heal life-threatening injuries. Once Tsunade introduced her medical ninjutsu expertise to Konoha medics, this technique was replaced with more effective procedures.
5) Poison Mist
Unlike the other techniques on this list, the Poison Mist technique is a medical ninjutsu ability that is strictly offensive, rather than healing. This technique combines both ninjutsu and medical ninjutsu, allowing the user to convert their chakra into a special substance. When this substance exits the body and makes contact with air, it instantly transforms into a cloud of toxic smoke. Breathing in this poisonous air will lead to immediate death, regardless of how little is inhaled.
However, it was shown by Ibuse that the Poison Mist technique can actually paralyze any enemies that inhale the smoke, depending on how the special chemical is altered.
6) Body Revival Technique
The Body Revival Technique is Shinno's signature technique and is utilized only by him throughout the entire series. This technique heightens the body's natural ability to increase muscle strength after healing, allowing for increased physical strength. At the same time, Dark Chakra can be infused with this technique, allowing Shinno to drastically increase his speed and overall healing.
Something incredibly unique about the Body Revival Technique is that it gives the user the appearance of being dead. This was shown to even fool the most experienced medical shinobi, giving Shinno a sneaky upper hand in battles.
7) Yin Healing Wound Destruction
Kabuto uses his incredible analytic abilities to determine exactly where his opponent will strike his body. As a result, he begins to concentrate chakra, where he believes he will be attacked, allowing for preemptive medical treatment to occur. This causes the damage done by the attack to be minimized as much as possible while also speeding up the healing process.
Kabuto used this technique in his fight with Naruto and Tsunade in the Naruto anime. Due to Naruto's immaturity, Kabuto was able to easily read his movements and intentions. Kabuto was able to easily defend against Naruto's powerful Rasengan attack, keeping him in the battle.
8) Cell Activation Technique
Tsunade created the Cell Activation Technique in the original Naruto anime after seeing Kabuto's Yin Healing Wound Destruction technique earlier in battle. She saw how he would concentrate chakra on a certain body part before getting hit and applied this technique to Rock Lee's risky spinal surgery, increasing the success rate.
This technique causes the patient's body to begin the healing process while they are still in surgery. This allowed for better stabilizing of the patient while also decreasing the amount of time the patient needed to stay in the hospital.
9) Delicate Illness Extraction Technique
This technique is mostly used for curing an individual of dangerous toxins by removing them using techniques that require extremely precise movements and delicate chakra control. It requires the use of a chakra scalpel to perform emergency surgery on the patient to draw out the poisonous fluid from the body. Sakura first used this technique on Kankuro after he was hit by one of Sasori's puppet attacks.
Despite the effectiveness of this technique, it is considered incredibly crude due to the immense amount of pain the patient must undergo while the procedure is being performed. As a result, it is only used in emergencies where the poison is incredibly lethal.
10) Mystical Palm Technique
Perhaps the most commonly used medical ninjutsu technique in the series, the Mystical Palm Technique is used for non-fatal and relatively simple injuries. The Mystical Palm Technique is also the first step that any medical shinobi trainee must master before moving on to any other techniques as most of all medical ninjutsu is derived from this single technique.
The Mystical Palm Technique is also a good measure of an individual's chakra control because they need a constant and steady flow of chakra. Too little chakra will not make a change in the patient, while too much chakra can send the patient into a coma.
Final thoughts
The Naruto series contains a large amount of medical ninjutsu techniques that can both heal and injure the people they are used on. At the same time, the quality of medical ninjutsu was kicked up a notch through the introduction of Tsunade's legendary Creation Rebirth technique.
A regular healing technique that rivals that of even Sage Jutsu and Otsutsuki Clan-level healing abilities has solidified medical ninjutsu as one of the most powerful ways to manipulate chakra in Naruto.
