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77HEAL AND BE HEALED
This blog is part of a series. You might want to check out the initial blog of the series http://hubpages.com/hub/MERRY-HUBS-MONTH to get a quick overview snapshot of the series and how this blog fits in....
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68Mind 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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81Ouch! 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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62Homeopathy: 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...
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56Use of Placebos in Study Designs Instead of Standard of Care in Medication
Introduction to the Use of Placebo: In the pursuit of gaining knowledge and scientific advancement for the purpose of establishing new medical treatments, clinical trials provide us with the path to...
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62Herbal Remedies and Prescription Drugs
Many people take herbal remedies because they believe they work and are safer than prescription drugs. Some of these herbals can actually be dangerous by themselves...
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49Living with Irritable Bowel Syndrome(IBS)
I spent days with cramping pains in my stomach and doubled over in agony which was quite worrying when you are in your late teens and not taking the best care of yourself. My partner then convinced me...
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67Leaving 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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