Critical Wounds

 lowers the effectiveness of healing skills on you, including Heal, Sanctuary, Potion Pitcher, and recovery items. This reduction is 20% times the level of that inflicted it. Lasts 30 seconds.

Abilities
The following abilities inflict :

Cure
can be cured through the following methods:
 * If a Crusader uses Sacrifice on the inflicted person, the Crusader can take the damage and be healed, regardless of the on the target.
 * The Kafra Shop item, Restoration Potion, increases healing recovery by 20%. This modifier stacks additively, so player using a Regeneration Potion struck by level 5 would have healing recovery of 20% instead of 0%.

Prevention
The following lists ways that can be prevented:
 * You can dodge critical wounds inducing physical attacks if you have high FLEE, are in Safety Wall (at close range), or in Pneuma (at long range).