Some may
work as placebos, which is fine; some may not work at all; some may have one or more active ingredients.
Some may
work as placebos, which is fine, some may have an active ingredient.
Although the actual usefulness is debated, they often
work as placebo.
Not exact matches
One study even goes so far
as to say that the herbs can
work, but only
as a
placebo effect.
If the tea is only food grade, it isn't strong enough to
work as a medicine, therefore it is a
placebo and not helping either.
«I'm on the record
as saying I absolutely do not believe in the explanations for homeopathy and how it quote unquote
works,» she says, before adding: «But I do believe in the
placebo effect and it's possible that if a
placebo is the best treatment for a lower back pain, for example, then that's what the evidence shows and in a lot of these areas there hasn't been enough research done to really tell that.
The
placebo effect, also known
as non-specific effects and the subject - expectancy effect, is the phenomenon that a patient's symptoms can be alleviated by an otherwise ineffective treatment, since the individual expects or believes that it will
work.
As expected, the
placebo worked.
For some medical complaints, open - label
placebos work just
as well
as deceptive ones.
Researchers noted that while pregabalin
works in the same way
as gabapentin — both are often used interchangeably in clinical care — this review found gabapentin was not more effective than
placebo.
Online reviewers portray these medications
as working three to six times better than they do in clinical trials that randomly assign drugs or
placebos to broad samples of volunteers, he says.
Evidence supporting this view comes from medical trials that show
placebo drugs may
work as well
as pharmaceuticals in providing relief.
But in the last five years or so, researchers have shown that dispensing pills that people know are
placebos can still alleviate symptoms of IBS (
as they did for Linda) and depression,
as long
as the researchers explain that dummy pills have
worked for patients in the past.
In another example of
placebos and meds interacting in curious ways, one study found that when patients took a migraine drug that was labeled «
placebo,» it
worked half
as well
as it did for patients who took the same drug, properly labeled.
«There's no research to show that this type of treatment
works — several studies have shown that people taking long - term antibiotic for Lyme disease to treat lingering symptoms fare the same
as those who take
placebo,» states Chris Ohl, MD, an infectious disease expert at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
While we understand that anti-depressant medications such
as selective serotonin and selective serotonin and norepinephrine re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs and SNRIs)
work better than
placebo (in about 40 - 60 % of cases), scientists don't know for certain why they have an affect.
Other people believe visualisation programmes the muscles into
working at their most efficient level and still others think that the
placebo effect makes us try harder
as we assume success is guaranteed.
Keep in mind that when the FDA approves a drug, no one has to explain or demonstrate exactly how it
works, only that it is statistically more effective than a
placebo and that it doesn't come with significant health problems
as a result of using it.
In some studies, the
placebo treatment
works as well or even better than the real treatment.
And they performed twice
as much
work than rodents who received a
placebo.
First, randomized trials can be an enormous undertaking; testing the effects of a job - training program or a new
work incentive in welfare is not the same
as giving one set of patients a new drug and another set a
placebo.
Of course, some could say that
as long
as it
works, it doesn't matter if it's a
placebo effect, but that doesn't mean the studies are scientifically rigorous.
In it Wampold, a former statistician studying primarily outcomes with depressed patients, reported that (1) psychotherapy can be more effective than
placebo, (2) no single treatment modality has the edge in efficacy, and (3) factors common to different psychotherapies, such
as whether or not the therapist has established a positive
working alliance with the client / patient, account for much more of the variance in outcomes than specific techniques or modalities.