I believe - I do not believe - being treated

Experimentally proved that the placebo effect, in some measure, will appear even when the patient is notified that the pills that he takes it just a useless and harmless drugs (dummy pill). The placebo effect - a method of treating a patient, where as a medicinal drug use is completely safe and useless products (dummy pill), and the patient is convinced that taking the right medication and expects a positive effect from treatment. "Positive Thinking" - the basis on which underlies this effect. Get rid of a serious illness in the treatment using the placebo effect is very difficult, but still the cases are different. Widespread use of the placebo effect is when new developments come pharmacological drugs.

The statistics in the U.S. half of all specialists regularly prescribe useless reception of drugs, while patients did not suspect, and convinced that taking the right medication to cure. This fact is evidence that the placebo effect is really effective in the treatment of diseases. Recently, Professor Ted Kapchuk (Ted Kaptchuk) with his group of experimenters conducted the study: patients treated with placebo, while patients are aware that taking drugs disinterested. The results showed that even if patients knew about the pill-dummy, treatment effect did not disappear. For the experiment, selected group of patients, about 80 people, with a very common disease - irritable bowel syndrome (a pain), which has an unknown etiology. Patients were divided into two groups. The first group did not recognize any of the drugs. The second group of people assigned placebo, on a regular basis - 2 times a day. In this case, they were warned that any medical ingredients, tablets contain no data. On the package with the drug in large letters printed - "placebo". Patients were warned that rely on the placebo effect is useless, you just need to take medications provided.
The study lasted for three weeks. At the end of the experiment was the following fact: the number of patients emerged from irritable bowel syndrome with a "placebo" was 59%, with the group, whose products do not apply to rid itself of disease 35% of patients. The professor said that he did not realize that using the placebo effect can be achieved such results. The authors themselves, who conducted an experiment, consider that the data collected is not quite claim therapeutic properties "placebo effect" because the duration of the experiment was not large, since the number of people selected for the experiment. In order to finally bring the therapeutic effect of the pill, pacifiers, require more extensive research. Also, the authors are inclined to believe that in addition to the placebo effect, a significant contribution to the recovery of patients makes contact with the patient's physician.