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The placebo effect is the phenomenon whereby a patient’s symptoms can be improved by treatment with a harmless substance, ie a substance with no effects directly related to the treatment of symptoms or disease.

The postulated physiological explanation for this phenomenon would be the stimulation of a specific brain area that would result in the improvement of patient’s symptom picture.

The patient may influenced self by the feeling of being treated or the hope of healing, and as a result may be better or facilitate recovery. This phenomenon does not work as effectively or in all patients or all diseases.

Medical studies to validate the drugs and treatments for any disease or condition using placebos. In this way, you can control when symptoms are improved by this phenomenon and properly assess the effectiveness of treatment. When a treatment does not work significantly better than placebo, it is considered ineffective and inappropriate for this disease and can not be prescribed. In Spain, homeopathic treatments are the exception, according to the legislation, amended in 1994, did not demonstrate any efficacy. Ie: they can function only as placebos.

Besides the use of placebos, the so-called scientific studies used strategies to double and triple blind to prevent the researcher to know if the treatment is placebo or no prescription. Thus, it prevents researchers evaluate the improvement in a subjective, conditioned by their prejudices.

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