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is a simulated or otherwise medically ineffectual treatment for a disease or other medical condition intended to deceive the recipient.

A placebo (/pl si bo / pl -SEE-boh... Latin place b , 'I shall please' from place , 'I please') is a simulated or otherwise medically ineffectual treatment for a disease or other medical condition intended to deceive the recipient. A person given such an ineffectual treatment will often have a perceived or actual improvement in their condition, a phenomenon commonly called the placebo effect or placebo response, and research continues to be carried out on this psychological and physiological response. (wikipedia)

is a tricky subject in medicine. It is very difficult for the medical profession to get their teeth around the idea of a phony cure that actually works 30% of the time in psychogenic diseases.

A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.

must be believed in in order to work. And if it works, it is obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy.

You have to believe in a placebo or it wont work, but if it works, its obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy.

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