What Is Placebo Effect?
When we are sick or feel sick, we go to the doctors and hope they find a cure for us. Even if the doctors say that you are not sick, we try to convince the doctor if we believe this from the beginning. If you are very stubborn, he may agree to give you medicine. You will be very happy that you can finally be treated, and you are eagerly waiting to get the medicine right away. Then you get the medicine and feel better, sometimes suddenly. Do you think the doctor really gave you the medicine? The placebo effect is the perception that a person can heal themselves when they take a medicine, even though it has no proven therapeutic effect for their sickness. Placebo word comes from the Latin word "I will please" (I will relieve it from sicknesses), medicine and treatment are called a placebo on their own. Placebos have been showing to work in over 30% of patients, so doctors have been using them for years. In fact most of the time, placebos are the only thing doctor ca...