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Health

Werewolves are more physically powerful than most living creatures, and they are immune to many of the ailments and diseases that plague their human and wolf cousins. As half-spirit beasts designed for battle, they're exceptionally hard to kill.
Even so, it's a misconception to think that werewolves are immune to physical wounds. They can be wounded, but their wounds don't remain open long, thanks to their remarkable regenerative powers. The fact is that a werewolf can regenerate one health level of bashing damage per turn under any circumstances. If the damage is lethal, the Garou can still regenerate one health level per turn, although the player must roll Stamina (difficulty 8 ) if the Garou is involved in a strenuous or stressful situation such as combat.
As the movies show, the one great weakness the Garou have is silver. A werewolf has no defense against Luna's metal. Next to silver, the most dangerous threats to Garou are fire, radiation and the attacks of other supernatural creatures. This most powerful and lasting of damage is referred to as aggravated damage. More information on damage appears in Chapter Six.
The Health Trait is used to show the current status of a character. A Garou can absorb a lot of punishment, but continued abuse causes even werewolves to slow down physically and in their reaction time. This slow decline is indicated by the Health Trait, which shows dice penalties and condition notes for each level as a character slips towards death. For instance, a character who has been Hurt has a -1 modifier, which means that he has one less die to roll on all rolls, if a character has been mangled enough to warrant a health level of Crippled, he would lose five dice on all actions. At this point, the character is so beaten and suffering that it is difficult to focus on anything but the pain.
A character who reaches Incapacitated is in very bad shape. Not only is he unable to react to what is going on around him, but he's very close to ending his fighting days. If the character were to take one more health level of damage, he would die. Gaia is very gracious to her children, and she has given them many advantages to continue the fight, but dead is dead, even to her. In the olden times, the Garou would simply honor the fallen and wish them well on their next journey. But in these, the End Times, each loss hurts much worse. A fallen warrior is one who will not be present at the final battle of the Apocalypse.

What he touched was, according to his account, a mouth, with teeth, and with hair about it, and, he declares, not the mouth of a human being.
— M.R. James, "Casting the Runes"

A wraith's Corpus is her body, her physical manifestation in the Underworld. In addition, the term also refers to the relative health of that form. The more levels of Corpus a wraith has, the more solidly her ectoplasmic body holds together and the "healthier" she is. Wraiths who lose all of their Corpus tumble into a Harrowing, or sometimes Oblivion. Still, as Corpus is so easily regained, wraiths can absorb a tremendous amount of punishment.
The appearance of a wraith's Corpus is determined largely by his subconscious image of himself. While most wraiths look as they did in life, some look better, some look worse, and some find themselves in Corpora that are utterly inhuman-looking. However, just because a wraith's Corpus has wings does not necessarily mean that he can fly; most modifications of this sort are strictly cosmetic, not functional. Furthermore, a wraith's clothes are also part of his Corpus — he awakens as a wraith wearing whatever he would subconsciously deem appropriate. Many wraiths will find their wardrobe changing to suit the situation without conscious effort or thought on their part, reflecting how thoroughly a wraith's form is drawn from his subconscious image of himself.

Permanent Corpus
Permanent Corpus is the measurement of the maximum number of Corpus Levels a wraith can possess. All wraiths begin with a permanent Corpus rating of 10, but this can go down if the wraith fails or botches Harrowings. This creates a vicious cycle: a wraith loses permanent Corpus, limiting his maximum temporary Corpus. This means that he loses all of his temporary Corpus more easily, pulling him into another Harrowing in which he can lose more permanent Corpus, and so on....
There is no known way to increase permanent Corpus, though some rumors have crept out as to the abilities of the Usurers and Masquers in this regard. As certain Malfeans and other dwellers in the Tempest demonstrably have Corpus ratings in excess of 10, there would seem to be some secret to regaining — or even increasing — permanent Corpus.

Temporary Corpus
The Corpus track on the Wraith character sheet allows you to track how healthy your character is. The squares represent permanent Corpus; the circles represent temporary. Temporary Corpus can never exceed permanent. There are two basic ways to lose temporary Corpus: Interaction with the Skinlands and violence in the Underworld.
Every time a wraith interacts violently with an object or structure in the Skinlands (a bullet, a rock, a wall, etc.), he checks off one circle on his character sheet, indicating that one level of Corpus damage has been taken. A wraith only takes one Corpus Level of damage no matter how severe the Skinlands impact; a wraith takes as much damage from a baseball as from a grenade's detonation.
Immediately upon that impact, the wraith becomes Incorporeal and cannot be harmed by Skinlands objects for a number of turns equal to his Stamina. This explains how wraiths can walk through walls, parked cars and whatnot.
Violence in the Underworld is a different matter; the number of successes a wraith's opponent achieves on his damage roll is the number of Corpus Levels the wraith must check off (subject to modification via a soak roll). This sort of damage does not cause a wraith to become Incorporeal, and wraiths are always solid to one another and all objects that exist in the Shadowlands.
Wraiths can normally heal Corpus either by Slumbering or by spending Pathos. As each level of damage is healed, the check in that circle is erased.