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Remembered Wellness - The Placebo Effect tested

NaturalNews) As explained by Ronda Bresnick Hauss in a recent article in the Hill Rag, advanced know-how such as PET scans & MRIs permit researchers to examine the brain. While using the mind to heal the body was often discredited or disregarded historically, these new approaches indicate that the placebo effect does cause actual changes in brain chemistry which in turn leads to changes in the body.

Using a placebo means deliberately using a `medicine` that contains no active ingredients. A patient who manifests improvement after taking a placebo obviously becomes better through his or her faith or belief in the method than due to any benefit derived from the medicine.

Hauss reports on a recent clinical study conducted by Benson Friedman at the Mind/Body Medical Institute of the Harvard Medical School. In this study, 60 to 90 percent of diseases such as angina pectoris, bronchial asthma, herpes simplex & duodenal ulcer when treated with placebos showed beneficial results. Other conditions in which placebos have been effective are anxiety, stress, warts & ulcers. Placebos have been found to lower blood pressure & cholesterol & to improve reaction times, pulse rates & immune method activity.

Hauss explains how thoughts or beliefs influence the body. When someone is home alone at night & hears a noise, s/he may think someone is breaking in. Breathing speeds up & heart rate increases in response to this threat. Then, with the discovery that a partner has come home, breathing & heart rate normalize.

Trials with young people using placebos & the drug Zoloft show even greater results. While 69 percent improved with the drug, 59 percent improved with a placebo.

In a study of depression, Thomas Walsh, a psychiatrist at Columbia University, found that 30 percent of patients taking placebos experienced improvement.

Friedman noted that, for the placebo effect, it was important to have positive beliefs & expectations on the part of both the patient & the health care professional, & a nice relationship between both parties. Friedman urged that the term ``placebo effect`` ought to be dropped in favor of ``remembered wellness``.

Recalled wellness, also often called the relaxation response, as explained by Julie Milne, is the method of invoking nice feelings, of feelings of well-being, to reduce stress, anxiety or pain.
Reasons offered for the success of placebos were that patients get more attention from alternative practitioners. Alternative practitioners are nice listeners & build trust. doctor noted that the additional attention & rapport resulted in biological improvement.

According to Dr. Charles Raison, in a new approach to testing the efficacy of placebos at Harvard, patients with irritable bowel syndrome were openly informed that they were being given a `sugar pill.` Remarkably, Raison writes, the patients improved `significantly` over those who`d taken nothing.

Currently, 50 percent of Italian doctors use placebos. in physicians & psychiatrists in Canada have used placebos.

A placebo, Raison notes, adapts itself to whatever condition a patient has. Given for depression, it causes brain changes. Given for backache, it can mimic the effects of opioid analgesics. In cases of Parkinson`s it induces the body to produce more dopamine.
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