Placebo effect: The power of your belief.

Assume you have insomnia and really want to sleep, but your circumstances prevent you from doing so. Then you go to your mother and tell her about your insomnia problems. Then she handed you a random pill from her medicine cabinet and ordered you to take it with anticipation. And you have no idea what the pill is for, so you take it eagerly. And you slept like a baby right after taking a pill.

When you awoke the next day, you realized that the pill your mother had given you the night before was not a true pill, but rather a look-alike pill made of regular sugar and salt. Isn't that strange? You must be both surprised and perplexed by what has just occurred.

The question keeps popping up in your mind: how did a pill made of sugar and salt work so constructively? NO, this sugar and salt combination is not effective for sleeping. Then here's how it went so well last night?

The placebo effect is the only reason it works. It means regardless of your expectations or belief system, the sugar and salt-based look-alike pill worked last night. You thought the look-alike pill was real last night, so you took it with full belief, When you take that look-alike pill completely believing in it, it goes straight to your subconscious mind. And, as we all know, whatever our subconscious mind believes or feels will manifest in our lives regardless of anything. (So now you have your answer. It all comes down to your belief.) And it was only because of your belief and expectation that the look-alike pill worked last night.

                    

THE PLACEBO EFFECT.

An inactive drug ingredient, such as sugar, salt, or water, as well as a fake treatment, can simply improve a patient's condition due to his expectations or belief system, which works very effectively. The placebo effect is heavily reliant on your expectations and belief system.

                       

Ted Kaptchuk, a Harvard-affiliated beth Israel deaconess medical center professor who has spent his life studying the placebo effect, claims that

"The placebo effect is more than positive thinking — believing a treatment or procedure will work. It's about creating a stronger connection between the brain and body and how they work together,".

 Belief is powerful medicine, even if the treatment itself is a sham. New research shows placebos can also benefit patients who do not have faith in them 

-By Maj-Britt Niemi

According to research,the placebo effect can help with things like pain, anxiety, fatigue, depression and as well as cancer.

HOW WAS PLACEBO EFFECT INVENTED ?
During World War II, when thousands of American soldiers were wounded and they were taken to the hall for treatment. Dr. Henry Beecher, the hall's in charge, was worried when he got to know that they were out of pain-killing morphine, so he chose to substitute it with a quick injection of saline water and began treating injured soldiers by convincing them it was genuine morphine.

Dr. Henry Beecher was stunned when he noticed that about half of the soldiers who received this fake treatment recovered. This result shook up entire the medical science. And this is how scientists discovered the placebo effect. The placebo effect is said to have been invented by Dr. Henry Beecher. 

                            

According to Robert H. Shmerling who is senior faculty editor and Harvard health publisher.

     "The placebo effect is a mysterious thing. I’ve long been fascinated by the idea that something as inert and harmless as a sugar pill could relieve a person’s pain or hasten their recovery just by the expectation that it would."

NOCEBO EFFECT:-

The nocebo effect is the placebo effect's evil twin. The placebo effect is the polar opposite of this. If the placebo effect can cure the body when you think positively, the nocebo effect can harm it when you think negatively. In simple words a harmless thing that causes harm because you believe it's harmful. 

                       

It can happen when our negative expectations influence our perception of symptoms, causing side effects where none should exist. This means that you can have side effects from a sugar pill.

A placebo effect can work even if you know it's a placebo:-

Yes, it still works, when people know they're getting pills with no active ingredient, according to a recent study published in The Public Library of Science ONE, placebos function. This is important to know since placebos are prescribed much more often than most people believe.

-DEEP KUMAR R.