Placebo, faith & truth does help

[Skull]

Some doctors are now not hiding their prescription of a placebo:

https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/consciousness/the-weird-science-of-the-placebo-effect-keeps-getting-more-interesting

The story of the placebo effect used to be simple: When people don’t know they are taking sugar pills or think they might be a real treatment, the pills can work. It’s a foundational idea in medicine and in clinical drug trials dating back to the 1950s.

Then Ted Kaptchuk came along.

Kaptchuk is a professor at Harvard Medical School, and over the past decade, he and colleagues have shown, in study after study, that giving people placebos openly — that is, telling them they are taking a placebo — helps them feel better. Specifically, they found a placebo can relieve not just pain but also anxiety and fatigue.

[PeteS in CA]

Yeah, my Mom, who worked at a hospital long ago, once told of a doctor who cured a hypochondriac by "prescribing" sugar pills. The hypochondriac was delighted to be "cured" ... which I guess he was, after a fashion.