The experiments prove that it is not just the power of imagination.
There are lots of studies saying that placebo help. In particular, the placebo has removed the pain and other unpleasant symptoms in patients with irritable bowel syndrome and migraines.
Moreover, the placebo worked even if people knew that taking a placebo. Scientists plan to test whether you want to get the same results in chronic back pain and fatigue associated with cancer.
According to scientists, a placebo can affect the immune system. And yet we know that placebo evoked release in the brain’s endogenous opiates or endorphins, relieves pain. Also placebo activated endocannabinoids and dopamine, part of the reward system of the brain.
The fact that it’s not just the power of imagination proves the experiment. Patients with dental pain were given a placebo. Patients thought that they face a pain reliever. About a third of the pain has subsided. The placebo effect disappeared when taken drugs that block the effect of painkillers.
By the way, experts had tested a placebo with patients who have Parkinson’s disease. So, if changed the real drugs to placebo, the therapeutic effect lasted, because the body was already configured for a certain answer.
