Therapeutic Placebo Effect:
           http://students.haverford.edu/pkinser/neuro-placebo.htm
     This is an example of the placebo effect - a self-made natural
     basically a placebo effect taking place. Yet, doesn't this fact
     placebo effect is not totally understood, yet this fact should not
     placebo effect has been documented to be very powerful.
     A placebo is a medicine or other kind of treatment that seems
     ^(2). The placebo effect is "a change in a patient's illness
     placebo is not even necessary to result in a placebo effect.
     that it will. No matter the fact that placebos lack actual chemical
     experience the positive effects of placebo ^(2, 5, 7). We most often
     hear of placebos in clinical tests of new medications or treatments,
     other receives a placebo which feels, tastes, appears exactly like
     the drug. The placebo group's reactions to the placebo serve as a
     tested much produce results better than those by the placebo. Most
     often, the patient's belief that the placebo will be positively
     A patient's belief in the treatment and the placebo response are
     quite important in determining treatment (or placebo) results. If
     positive outcome, no matter if a placebo or pharmacologic treatment
     placebos as well as of active treatments. For example, in a double-
     narcotic analgesic, a placebo, or a narcotic antagonistic and the
     placebo or narcotic antagonist. The patients from the first group
     who received placebo had significantly less pain. Since the two
     placebo groups were only different in the doctors' knowledge of
     Third, placebos have time- effect curves and peaks, cumulative and
     varying doses of analgesic followed by a placebo are administered,
     patients' placebo responses correspond in degree of pain relief over
     dose-response effects have also been documented where two placebo
     How does one explain these trends and effectiveness of a placebo
     treatment? The physiology of the placebo effect is still largely
     unknown. A placebo is chemically inactive, yet it has a profound
     physiological processes and increases symptom reporting. Placebos
     placebo does not merely allow the patient's mind to be at ease; the
     received the surgery while a placebo group of five had a chest
     placebo group improved ^(7).
     An additional possible explanation for the effects of placebo is
     possibly the placebo effect is a stimulation and release of our
     exact physiological mechanism of the placebo effect are rare and
     difficult, especially when in most cases the use of a placebo is to
     the effect of placebos is dependent upon conditioning, faith and
     reduction of anxiety, the placebo response is different for everyone
     Indeed, we may not know how the placebo works, yet something which
     may simply be a placebo effect. Yet, if the effects of treatments
     conclusion that a placebo is more than something against which
     of the placebo effect, how can we really say that one type of
     therapies (which the medical world claims are placebo effects), then
     the placebo effect must demonstrate the amazing power of our mind.
     Perhaps the placebo decreases anxiety. Perhaps it meets the
     our heads! "Placebo effects are recognized as an inherent part of
     The placebo effect is proof of the fact that the mind can influence
     1- Fecteau, Danielle, "Placebo Effects", Science et Comportement
     http://www.cancer.org/alt_therapies/articles/placebo.html
     3- Turner, et al, "The importance of placebo effects in pain
     =placebo+eff ect&COB=home (Note: this link takes you to the Mining
     6- Elmer, Debra, "Placebo Use":
     http://www.nursing.uiowa.edu/sites/Adultpain/MedGen/placebot.htm
     7- Imprint Online, "Placebo Power":