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A placebo eases the pain or severity of a disease but does not cure it?
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∙ 12y ago
A placebo is a 'pretend' medicine. If you were testing a new pain relief pill, for example, you might prescribe that to 1,000 people and prescribe a harmless placebo (perhaps just sugar made to look like a pill) to another 1,000 patients.
One would naturally expect that the first pill eased pain while the placebo did nothing, but because of psychological components etc., it is possible that several patients who received the placebo will claim it did relieve their pain!
Strictly, a placebo should do nothing to improve the lot of a patient...
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 11y agoA placebo does not contain medicine or any active ingredients and therefore does nothing for easing the pain or severity of a disease. A placebo is used when performing drug trials so there is a group to compare the real medication to. The human mind is powerful and to make sure people don't react to the expectations of a medication but to the actual effects of it, a placebo is used. However, there is the placebo effect where the person exhibits the expected outcome (pain relief if the person believes the medication is a pain-reliever, for instance) even though the substance is a placebo. This does not occur with every person.
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