Placebos can definitely work. I went to a drug store one time to get something that would help my wife with a problem she was having. The pharmacist said there was nothing for that. So I had him give me some sugar pills and put them in a bottle that said to take them for that problem.
I gave them to my wife, and the problem went away completely after the first pill never to return. Marshall Sally Khanna wrote: > Paul, thanks for the laugh for the day! Funny, but it's also > sad. Sally > > Paul Holloway <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is the mentality of the FDA: > > Richard Bandler (the Neurolinguistic Programming guy) tried > marketing a placebo, but predictably the FDA didn't like it. > The > following is from his book "Time For A Change": > > "You may have thought a placebo works because the person > doesn't > know it's a placebo. It works because of belief. In the USA > we do > an unusual > thing. We test all drugs against placebos. That's what a > double-blind test > does. So we have more information on placebos than we have > on all > drugs put > together. > > Robert Dilts and I had an idea. We decided to put out a > product, > tiny empty capsules, called "Placebo." No side effects. > Robert was my grad student at the time. He reviewed the > research > on standard problems like headaches. We made plans to > publish a > little > booklet with an index. A person would look up headach! es > and read, > "When tested > against other drugs, placebos work five out of six times." > Then > it would say, > "Take seven when you have a headache." It's a sure thing. > > The FDA complained. They told us the effects would wear off. > > Placebo would lose its efficacy. We knew that could happen. > Some > people would > not get the beliefs built in tenaciously the first time. We > revealed our backup plan. "NEW! PLACEBO PLUS! TWICE THE > INERT > INGREDIENTS! TWICE AS > POWERFUL AS EVER BEFORE!" > > Of course, drug companies run the FDA. So they wouldn't let > us do > it. They couldn't find any danger. The capsules were empty. > There > was > nothing there. They told us this was illegal and immoral. > "Besides," they said, > "it will never work, so we won't let you do it." > > We had proved that it would work. We had decades of their > experimental results from them. We also had our own results. > > My clients often knew a placebo when they got one. They > still! do. > I actually give them the ability to believe that it works > because > it is a > placebo. I explain that since they already know it for a > placebo, > it will > work forever. It does." > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing > Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: > http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver List archive: > http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > Address Off-Topic messages to: > [email protected] > OT Archive: > http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Discover all thatÂ’s new in My Yahoo!
