Hello Air-Clinicians & Friends,
Have you ever heard the word "placebo"? Do you know what it means? If you don't know, have you ever wondered what it might mean?
WHAT IS PLACEBO?
Well, contrary to what you may be thinking, placebo is not the trade name of a drug. Let's see the dictionary definition of the word.
a medicine or procedure prescribed for the psychological benefit to the patient rather than for any physiological effect.
Dictionary.com
In this context, its still not a psychoactive drug. Infact, its nothing! Its just like giving you water in form of a tablet. There's no active susbstance in it that will have the effect of the drug.
Look at it as deception. The aim of this deception is to make the patient or subject think he/she is being given an active drug whereas he/she only received a placebo. Eg. A patient addicted to a painkiller could be given water for injection instead and he/she will still feel better. Lolx.
APPLICATIONS OF PLACEBO
1- Tests, Clinical Trials & Studies:
In every study, there's usually a test drug and a control drug. If there's no control, you cannot say for sure that the substance had an effect. Hence the effect of the active substance is measured against the uneffectiveness of the control.
2- In Psychology:
Many illnesses are not real. What we mean is that they are actually just in the mind of the patient. So if you can work on his/her mind, you have half-solved (or fully solved) the given problem. Placebos can come in handy for this. You trick the patient into believing he/she is okay (and he/she actually becomes okay). Ever heard of fake it till you make it!?
3- To Identify A Malingering Patient:
To malinger means to pretend to be ill or suffer from a given ailment. The supposed patient may even have read up some of the features of the ailment and try to conform with symptoms.
SO in this scenario, how do you find out the truth? Its simple, just give him/her placebo and he/she pretends to get better lolx. Here you have it. You just caught a medical thief!
4- To Treat Drug Addiction:
You can use this placebo method to cure an addict by replacing the active substance with placebo sometimes. It must be a very discrete operation because if the patient discovers mission is aborted. Also you are to do it sparingly, otherwise it won't work anymore.
We believe we have added to your medical knowledge today. So to answer the question we posed in the title:
YES IT WORKS!
Caution has to be applied by a health expert to only use it in appropriate circumstances or it might lose its given benefits.
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