Placebo Effect: A Cure in the Mind

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Placebo Effect: A Cure in the Mind

 

" A man whom his doctors referred to as " Mr. Wright " was dying from

cancer of

the lymph nodes. Orange-size tumors had invaded his neck, groin, chest

and

abdomen, and his doctors had exhausted all available treatments.

Nevertheless,

Mr. Wright was confident that a new anticancer drug called Krebiozen

would

cure him.

 

Mr. Wright was bedridden and fighting for each breath when he received

his

first injection. But three days later he was cheerfully ambling around

the

unit, joking with the nurses. Mr. Wright's tumors had shrunk by half,

and after

10 more days of treatment he was discharged from the hospital. And yet

the

other patients in the hospital who had received Krebiozen showed no

improvement.

 

Over the next two months, however, Mr. Wright became troubled by press

reports questioning the efficacy of Krebiozen and suffered a relapse.

His doctors decided to lie to him: an improved, doubly effective version

of the drug was due to arrive the next day, they told him. Mr. Wright

was ecstatic. The doctors then gave him an injection that contained not

one molecule of the drug--and he improved even more than he had the last

time . . . "

 

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=placebo-effect-a-cure-in-the-mind

 

http://www.americanbuddhist.net/placebo-effect-cure-mind

 

http://www.americanscientist.org/science/pub/placebo-effect-a-cure-in-the-mind-