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What Lies Behind the Placebo Effect?
Who hasn't heard of the "placebo" medication? You take a sugar pill or flour mixed with water and tell a patient in pain that "this mighty pill can calm a raging bull." Amazingly, the pain disappears. The astonished patient thanks us from the bottom of their heart for the wonderful medicine and asks for another pill... How is it possible for such a "medicine" to have such a profound influence? The power of belief in the healing process.
