The power of placebos

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Re: The power of placebos

@TLK

I believe in placebo effect. In fact I think that ninety percent if not whole of homeopathic science works on that. Homeopathic medicine is for most of the part is nothing but sugar pill.

Very true. There are so many people who swear by homeopathic medicine…when in reality it really is just a placebo solution/pill.

This reminded me of my time spent working at a poison control center. It was common to get calls about accidental overdoses of homeopathic drugs or children getting into the meds…and our standard answer was basically to expect nothing and the person would be fine. Because essentially a person could down a whole bottle and there wouldn’t be any amount of active drug/herb that would be the least bit worrisome.

@09

I believe it too, look at exorcisms that purportedly heal people

@JoelKhan

Believe in it too since all the dabba peers in Pakistan work in the same area and it seems to cure a lot of issues…

@MangoMan

I think religions play the same role

When religion gets into the mix is when it really gets tricky in my opinion…because these people have faith in the rituals (or higher power that can make everything possible) VS something we know for a fact has no religious ties and isn’t scientifically proven to treat an individual (i.e. sugar pill)

But I do get where you guys are coming from…definitely makes the case for placebos stronger.