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82Bach Flower Remedies: Tonics or Placebos
If you’ve never heard of Bach flower remedies, let me first assure you that they have nothing to do with classical music or anyone named Johann Sebastian. They are homeopathic medicines developed in the...
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80Ouch! Pain Relieving Gadgets and Getting Rid of Pain and Discomfort
A review of gadgets and devices on the market that alleviate pain. Pain relieving devices such as sonic therapy, magnetic therapy and TENS machines - what they can and can't do. They have less...
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53Music and healing
Healing Nov/2oth: Somehow music conveys of things beyond that can't be uttered with words ... The latest musical production I was involved in was the story of Siddharta and how he became Buddha ... You...
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51Power of belief
Belief can change art into reality. The famous Orson Welles' broadcast of the War of the Worlds led to a consensus reality in which Martians were invading the earth. The simplest interpretation is that we...
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72Mind Over Body: Can Sugar Pills(Placebo) Reduce Pain?
sugar pills One of the truly amazing research findings is how sugar pills or placebos can somehow "trick" us into feeling or getting better. For example, because many of us believe that we will be helped by...
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60pain and the placebo and nacebo effects
I have written about many studies where there has been a strong placebo effect, the power of positive thought affecting the outcome of a result, but have you heard of the power of the ‘nacebo’ effect. ...
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69Homeopathy: More Than Faith
How do you see the world? Simon Singh recently wrote an article that shows his bias towards alternative healing. He calls himself a skeptic and a scientist. He purpose is to give homeopathy a bad name. We...
9 comments68Leaving the Land of Woo
The Land of Woo is the land where the normal rules of science don't apply, where fantastic cures can be obtained by wiggling toes, where crystals and magnets have properties undetected by science, where anyone who invents a fanciful theory can launch a business selling it to gullible people. Leaving the Land of Woo takes the lid of irrational theories and helps us understand how the real world works.
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57Understanding the Placebo Effect
When dealing with pain, often the mind can be a very powerful asset. In a number of studies, using a placebo in place of actual medicine has been shown to offer pain relief in more than a third of the recipients. Learn about what a placebo is and the placebo effect in this article.
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