How very strange, this. In BM, as a seal clubber (tongue of the otter, no other healing skills), not beaten up; effects in place are missing kidney and 279 turns of Seal Clubbing Frenzy. I'm using the latest (SVN) Mafia and universal recovery 3.334.
> autosell facsimile dictionary
Autoselling items to NPCs...
You gain 21,337 Meat
Items sold.
(note: here I hit the '1' shortcut button to restore hp)
Restoring HP! Currently at 73 of 196 HP, 50 of 82 MP... Target HP = 196.
Buying medicinal herb
Purchasing Medicinal Herb's medicinal herbs (1 @ 100)...
You acquire an item: Medicinal Herb's medicinal herbs
Purchases complete.
Using 1 Medicinal Herb's medicinal herbs...
You gain 123 hit points
Finished using 1 Medicinal Herb's medicinal herbs.
Casting Tongue of the Otter 1 times...
You gain 16 hit points
Tongue of the Otter was successfully cast.
It hasn't cast Tongue other times I've just needed to heal up with medicinal herbs.
I've put verbose and super_verbose on in case it happens again.
Edit: Yep, it happened again, though verbose and super_verbose aren't extremely informative. Just finished a combat (in which I barely survived, blasted cuncatitis) and the auto-heal triggered.
Calling Universal Recovery for type=HP, amount=182
Restoring HP! Currently at 14 of 196 HP, 45 of 82 MP... Target HP = 196, current meat: 22073.
Trying to fullheal
Buying medicinal herb
Purchasing Medicinal Herb's medicinal herbs (1 @ 100)...
You acquire an item: Medicinal Herb's medicinal herbs
Purchases complete.
Using 1 Medicinal Herb's medicinal herbs...
You gain 182 hit points
Finished using 1 Medicinal Herb's medicinal herbs.
Casting Tongue of the Otter 1 times...
You gain 18 hit points
Tongue of the Otter was successfully cast.
Calling Universal Recovery for type=MP, amount=0
Recovery settings are: stop if auto-recovery fails; Auto-recover health at 25%; try to recover up to 100%. HP recovery options checked: free disco rest; Nostrum; herbs; scroll of drastic; visit the nuns; filthy poltice; gauze garter. Aside from changing verbose and super_verbose to true, I haven't changed any UR options.