Christopher Skelton
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Yes, Dudly, I DID see some of it, but I did NOT see THIS part of it! You GO, Katara! 
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Katara and Bloodbending........
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carlysmith98
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It seems to me that bloodbending can be a useful healing tool. Internal bleeding, rapid blood loss from a battle wound... all things that can be better controlled with bloodbending.
Kauai Girl
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Than what exactly would the vitakinetic ability exist for?
It'll be pointless for her to use two separate abilities as healing only.
It'll be pointless for her to use two separate abilities as healing only.
She might have been able to save Jet, but I think the time required to get him on his feet was prohibitive. As we saw in "Day of Black Sun" you don't get insta-healing from Waterbending healing abilities. We even saw that the people Katara was treating in "The Drill" from Ty Lee's chi-blocking techniques weren't on their feet immediately.
Plus, Longshot told them to go. If he was talking, you KNOW it had to be serious
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Anyway, I think that Waterbending healing techniques are related to bloodbending, but not quite the same. Healing is used to return the body to a state of balance when an injury knocks it out of balance. Bloodbending takes an otherwise healthy body in a state of balance and deliberately knocks it out of balance for the bender's own purposes. I suspect that the fundamental techniques used are the same. It's just the purpose that's different.
I think Hordesman is right that it might be usable to close wounds faster or deal with internal bleeding or hemorrhaging, but given the constraints imposed by BS&P, I don't think we're ever going to see it used that explicitly. The most we've ever seen of blood on the show is the occasional minor cut. It would be cool, though.
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Plus, Longshot told them to go. If he was talking, you KNOW it had to be serious
.Anyway, I think that Waterbending healing techniques are related to bloodbending, but not quite the same. Healing is used to return the body to a state of balance when an injury knocks it out of balance. Bloodbending takes an otherwise healthy body in a state of balance and deliberately knocks it out of balance for the bender's own purposes. I suspect that the fundamental techniques used are the same. It's just the purpose that's different.
I think Hordesman is right that it might be usable to close wounds faster or deal with internal bleeding or hemorrhaging, but given the constraints imposed by BS&P, I don't think we're ever going to see it used that explicitly. The most we've ever seen of blood on the show is the occasional minor cut. It would be cool, though.
-- Ed