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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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54Use 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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66Barack Obama's Placebo Effect on the U.S. Economy
MedicineNet.com defines placebo effect as, “…a remarkable phenomenon in which a placebo -- a fake treatment, an inactive substance like sugar, distilled water, or saline solution -- can sometimes improve...
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50Living 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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72Thoughts affect your body - The proven link :
It is said that your thoughts have power; enough power to affect physical things. Your physical body responds to thought. This has been proven scientifically. One good example to prove your thoughts or...
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68The Wounded Healer, EFT and Musings
I have been working with EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) to address an emotional issue I developed without my being aware of it consciously, after my nephew passed away. EFT involves tapping the...
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66Make your own Silver solution for immunity boosting (or as Werewolf Repellant)
Here I show you the simplest and cheapest way to make a silver solution with the tools most of us have available. For those of you who have checked into purchasing colloidal silver at retail prices it can...
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51Is there evidence for the placebo effect?
What is the placebo effect? The placebo effect is a term used in medicine whereby someone's beliefs or ideas about a treatment make their body respond to a physiologically inactive procedure- either a...
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63Holistic Medicine, Fact or Fantasy
There have been long deliberations on which one of the two systems of healing existing today, i.e. Western medicine and holistic health care, is the better of the two. The latter has gained in popularity in...
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50When Doctors Prescribe Sham Medicines
If you believe that a doctor's prescription has real pharmaceutical drugs written on it, think again, because recent studies have pointed to the fact that doctors frequently prescribe placebo pills to achieve...
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