Like how does the pill translate to feeling well in reality just through imagination /perception of the problem being solved / altered .
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A placebo doesn’t actually do anything. The point of a placebo is so that you have something to compare real medicine against to see if the real medicine is doing anything.
You have two groups of people. You give one group the placebo and one group the test medicine. If both groups heal about the same amount, it means the medicine didn’t really help.
There is this thing called the “placebo effect” which is just when a person who believes they have gotten real medicine starts to feel better. This is generally just the person attributing normal bodily healing to the placebo instead of their immune system.
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