They did test and figured out that all medicines depend on the placebo effect, cause when they gave them placebo, they thought that the subjects if they were believing it to happen that the effect would be even higher if they gave them the real medicine too. However the placebo had done it's role and the real medicine had no effect. Also the real medicine and the placebo taken seperatly had exactly the same effects, not just imaginable but real effects where the brain reacts to the placebo as if it was the real medicine. They have split the placebo into two different meanings, one being that you with your willpower, belief and expectations can heal yourself, and one that is unconscious which reacts to the doctors and the situation much like a dog gets saliva if you ring the bell everytime you give them food.
Oh really, so how exactly is it that animals treated by vets are able to improve with medicine? They relying on placebo effect too? A dog salivates in this experiment because he has been 'conditioned ' to do so, it is NOT at all the same. http://teachnet.edb.utexas.edu/~lynda_abbott/Behavioral1.html Conditioning "Behaviors that are classically conditioned are those which involve the learning of involuntary responses -- responses over which the learner has no control and to which he or she responds reflexively or "automatically." Thus, examples include a dog salivating at the sound of the dinner bell, a horse flinching or shying away at a blowing piece of paper, someone becoming nauseous at sight of "creamy-looking" food when mayonnaise once made them ill, etc." Placebo "placebo effect The placebo effect is the measurable, observable, or felt improvement in health not attributable to treatment. This effect is believed by many people to be due to the placebo itself in some mysterious way. A placebo (Latin for "I shall please") is a medication or treatment believed by the administrator of the treatment to be inert or innocuous. Placebos may be sugar pills or starch pills. Even "fake" surgery and "fake" psychotherapy are considered placebos."
