Homeopathy

Yeah thats ace and all, and I'm really glad you've found a good drug that works well for you, but as previously discussed on this thread quite a lot of what a drug does is down to you, as blind tests with placebos show.

No, no, no, no !

You have misunderstood the placebo effect, the placebo effect will not address an underlying physiological issue, it has no actual therapeutic value in treating a physical disease, It also cannot produce any kind of measurable improvement. Its value is in the reduction of symptoms that can be self-reported by the patient.

Basically, it can help the way a patient feels, but it can't treat their illness. So if you are suffering from a condition where their is no actual disease or physical or physiological problems like stress or insomnia, it can help you feel better, but where there is a actual disease agent or an actual physical or physiological problem it literally can't do anything - it's only with those conditions that our bodies can address themselves where it can be useful (and even here it only works on about a third of patients).

If you give a insomniac a sedative and to another a placebo, they both might get a good night's sleep.

If you give a haemophiliac a drug and to another a placebo, the one with the placebo will likely bleed to death. Regardless of what he thinks the drug might do.