The simplest form of dream healing, one which can be easily addressed, is that of psychological health. Indeed, my own personal journey in dreamland started with a form of psychological healing, namely overcoming nightmares. Far back when I was the tender age of 5 years old, I was afflicted with terrible recurrent nightmares. So fearsome were these nightmares that as a child, I lived in a constant, almost debilitating fear of sleep.
Of course, such disturbed sleep and the continued worry was, itself, enough to impact upon my daily physical health; I would be constantly tired, making me more prone to illness and mood swings - some very real and tangible effects of an unhealthy dream life. It was my childhood discovery of lucid dreaming that brought resolution to these nightly conflicts, eventually "healing" me of these nightmares and, by proxy, the afflictions the strain of disturbed sleep had upon my waking health. Having experienced this form of psychological healing directly, and again indirectly through the shared experiences of my students and other lucid dreamers, I can confidently say that, at least for nightmares, lucid dreaming can be used to provide a form of psychological healing.
Furthermore, all manner of other psychological issues may be addressed and hopefully improved upon with the careful use of lucid dreams; I have experienced dreamers tackling anxiety, depression and various other issues through the use of skilled lucid dreaming. However, I would stress that with any health issues, either physical or psychological, one should always approach a qualified medical practitioner before attempting any personal experimentation in self healing. Certainly, with the support and aid of modern medicine and a trained health professional, lucid dreaming can be a useful tool in the healing process, if nothing else it can aid as a positive distraction or morale boosting mechanism. It shouldn't, however, be used as an alternative to real medical help.
To take this a step further and to address what I believe may be the core of your question: “is physical healing possible during lucid dreams?”
To this I can only give the answer, we don’t know. The human body is a marvelously complicated piece of biological machinery, with all manner of self-correcting and healing mechanisms that, as a species, we are yet to fully understand. Mechanisms, such as the placebo effect, go some way to demonstrate that a belief in, or a psychological suggestion of healing, seem to help induce some of these inbuilt mechanisms.
Lucid dreaming obviously offers us an arena in which we can experience fully vibrant and realistic virtual experiences. Perhaps this level of realism combined with healing themed dreams could help kick start our bodies own ability to heal itself.
However, it is unlikely that physical self-healing or the placebo effect can take us very far, for if you think carefully about it, if such a powerful ability to heal our bodies were latent in us, why then would the forces of evolution not have long since made these readily available to us? The evolutionary advantage of powerful physical self-healing would be immense; creatures with such an ability would have long ago held the upper hand over their competitors, and such traits would likely now be common place.
Instead, what seems more likely is that, whilst the human body does indeed have some powerful and astounding self-correcting mechanisms, these are limited - it is unlikely we have further undiscovered powers. However, positivity, humour and a fighting spirit can go a long way in helping to keep the human mind healthy, even when the body is not, and surely that is a good thing.
With humility, it must be said that the jury is still out on this topic and much research into this area still needs to take place. Certainly, as long as lucid dream healing is not used in place of proven medical help, there is unlikely to be any harm in experimenting with what may be possible.
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