The shield guardian has a creature type of "construct". While the shield guardian is able to regenerate hit points, that may be insufficient to keep one on its feet in combat, so additional healing might be useful. Certain types of healing, for instance, the cure wounds spell, specifically say "has no effect on constructs". It seems logical, then, that any other method of restoring hit points, for instance, the potion of healing, that does not contain such a restriction, would be able to heal a shield guardian. I can find no rule that contradicts this. It seems then, that how to heal a shield guardian is to use any healing that doesn't exclude constructs. Is this the correct interpretation of the rules?
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Best Answer
You are correct.
If any healing spell, item, effect, or feature does not specifically exclude constructs, and the construct lacks features that prevent healing magic from restoring its HP, then it will heal a shield guardian.