Latin placebo (please). Placebo helps person get out of pain or other symptoms of the disease without drugs help. From ancient times to the present day followers of alternative medicine (for example: Homeopathy*) remove " curse", "evil eye" and other due to the humans self-healing property. The term "placebo" first use in the XVIII. Henry Beecher American anesthesiologist is known that during the Second World used saline (water, salt) as an anaesthetic.
Statistics *: 88% of doctors in Bavaria, 12% of doctors in the UK, 20% of doctors in Chicago, 50% of psychiatrists all over the world betake to placebo.
The placebo effect is not the same at all, the effect depends on the individual's suggestibility.
Pharmacology constantly uses the placebo effect for marketing purposes*. Experimentally proved that:
- large tablets effectively than small,
- yellow pills better help for depression,
- white for gastric ulcer,
- blue for insomnia,
- expensive drugs - more efficiently.
Nocebo - antipode placebo in terms of effect. Example: may occur after reading the side effects, even if the drugs - bluff.
Besides that, doctor always find to prescribing pointless treatments for pushy patients (dailymail)*.
Used: magicjournal.ru, wikipedia, theguardian.com