Essentials of Medical Intuition by Wendie Colter

Author:Wendie Colter
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786786128
Publisher: Watkins Media
Published: 2022-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

Is Medical Intuition a Placebo?

Since medical intuition is not a health treatment or intervention, it doesn’t belong under the heading of a placebo. However, investigations into the placebo effect clearly demonstrate the crucial link between our thoughts and beliefs, and our potentials for healing.

The word “placebo” means “to please.” Placebos look like real drugs but are made of harmless substances, such as a sugar pill or saline. In double-blind clinical trials, placebos are used to test the effectiveness of pharmaceutical drugs and treatments. In the US, all new drugs must perform better than the placebo in order to be put on the market.20

Obviously, taking a placebo should have no impact on the body. But the “placebo effect” happens when a placebo has a more beneficial result than the drug being tested – simply because a patient believes it will work.

A 2005 meta-analysis on the use of placebos for patients with irritable bowel syndrome showed effectiveness rates ranging between 16 per cent and 71.4 per cent.21 More recent studies place placebo cure rates as high as 79 per cent.22

What is truly fascinating about placebos is that studies have shown:

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