Placebo
- this medicine dummy, which is offered under the guise of this. The placebo
effect is that despite its uselessness, a similar preparation still operates.
Probably
each of us at least once in a lifetime burned, touching a hot frying pan or the
Strait of boiling water. But what if you can get the same impact without the
burn of hot object or liquid? For example, cool water? You think it's
impossible?
Once
the researchers conducted an experiment in which the subjects were immersed in
a hypnotic trance, and then applied to the skin of ordinary coin, suggesting
that it is a red-hot metal. "You feel like your arm is applied a hot iron.
It burns the skin, you really hurt! You feel like your skin is burned, "-
he repeated the hypnotist.
Removing
the coin, soaked in water at room temperature, the experimenters found
irritated red spot, which after some time has got all the symptoms of burns.
This is there a reasonable explanation: the person being influenced by words
and his body responds to an order that takes consciousness.
This is how the placebo effect works.
History of discovery
The
placebo effect was discovered during the Second World War, American
anesthesiologist Henry Beecher. Deficiency of painkillers and a huge number of
wounded forced to use it instead of morphine injection of saline. To his
surprise, a useless drug acted as effective as the present analgesic.
After
the war, research in this area continued. Numerous tests have confirmed the
observations anesthesiologist: after receiving the "dummy" under the
guise of medicines for patients in most cases comes relief. Thus, it is the
expectations of human and suggestion on the part of helping to achieve results.
Today
we know that the placebo effect is observed during operations. 30 people
suffering from the disease of the inner ear, had to operate. Currently, 15
people suffered surgery and another 15 have made the pseudo-operation. As a
result, in each of these groups of 10 people get rid of the disease.
At
first glance it may seem that the placebo effect is a purely psychological. But
it is not. Placebo - is not only self-hypnosis and faith in a favorable
outcome, it is also the launch of the physiological reactions in the body.
To
see how the body responds to the suggestion, researchers from the University of
Michigan entered the test volunteers jaw brine to cause them pain. After this
test was given a dummy pill and told it was a pain reliever. The photographs,
scientists have discovered that a brain region responsible for the allocation
of "happiness hormone" endorphin became active after receiving
analgesic dummy. The subjects claimed that the medication helped, and the
feeling of pain receded.
