Placebo and Nocebo Effects: A Scientific Proof of Mental Power

The word placebo derives from the Latin, "placere" meaning "to please". Any placebo treatment is harmless from the point of view of the active chemical principle, with no specific action on the patient's symptom or disease. He is taught without the patient being aware that there is nothing, he believes that the remedy element has the active principle that can generate healing. Mysteriously an improvement happens in the patient. The placebo effect is the result of the patient's mental action in just thinking that he is taking a drug that will cause an improvement in his health, although he does not know that he is taking an innocuous remedy without any physicochemical effect on his body. This is a full proof of the power of the mind over the functioning of the organism and this demonstrates that our organism has the power of self-healing when we are suggested for it. Most medicines used in Western medicine, called allopathic, which means cure on the contrary, act on the symptom, hiding its effects, and not in causes as is the case of Eastern medicine. They are manufactured by half a dozen multinational laboratories, which make billions of dollars annually and have their products approved in the United States by the FDA – Federal Drug Administration and equivalent to the Brazilian Sanitary Surveillance. The "scientific methodology" for approving these new drugs is done through controlled clinical trials, where half of guinea pig patients, usually from "third world" countries, undergo new drugs, as follows: half take only placebo and the other half take the drug with the chemical active principle. Usually the result of those who just took placebo is 30 percent in cases of physical illnesses and up to 70 percent in psychological cases. Drugs with active principle usually have an additional improvement of only 2 to 3 percent, reaching a maximum of 33 and 73 percent, respectively. This means that the placebo effect causes about 90% of the improvement, and the active principle only the remainder, 10%. There is also the nocebo effect, which also proves the strength of mental power. In this case, it is the other way around, the drug has the active principle, but the doctor unconsciously indicates that he does not believe in that medicine. In this case neither the psychological healing effect of the placebo effect manifests itself. As the code of medical ethics and FDA, allow this scientific methodology then is proven the power of the mind and also of faith, because it works equally in both cases, placebo and nocebo. Based on this, an American laboratory called "Efficacy Brands"- Effective Brands, in a free translation, launched an innocuous "medicine", called Obecalp (placebo on the contrary), recommended for children, without any active principle, but which has given results of up to 80 percent improvement. This has generated much controversy, because it debunks much of the pharmaceutical industry, which was even an article in The New York Times. If you take any chemical drugs, I suggest you search the internet for the value of the placebo (mental power) and the additional (chemical) effect. Only you pay the full amount (100%), although your body is free and silent, commanded by your mind, curing 90% of your disease. What's more, the active principle almost always has a side effect that already leaves planted the seed for its next disease and consequently more medications and more side effects, in a vicious circle for your health and virtuous for the billing and profitability of laboratories. The most serious is that everyone in the industrial chain of the disease knows this, only you do not know that you are the only one who pays for it, both with new diseases and financially. I hope that these reflections have raised questions about your habits and mental patterns and will take you to new levels of consciousness. Why do doctors and prescriptions for medicines clearly report on the power of the placebo effect?