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Originally Posted by Ashartus
But it just relieves the symptoms, and generally just subjective ones. For example there was some recent work done on asthmatics with placebos - the placebo group thought they were breathing better, but when lung function was actually measured it was no different than the group receiving no treatment at all. So I guess it could be great for hypochondriacs, but not really much help for people with real health issues.
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But asthma is a real disease that needs real treatment, the ones where placebos have their place are the joint / back pain, colds, flus, headaches, where a placebo will work as well as the off the shelf stuff.
I do agree that their is risk with the natural means safe problem and letting probems get worse before they are really treated but as long as they arent funded i dont have an issue with them.
I think regulation is also a good thing as leaving them under the radar will not solve the issues being raised here