{"id":7431,"date":"2021-02-18T14:10:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T14:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/?p=7431"},"modified":"2021-03-25T14:25:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T14:25:52","slug":"the-true-cause-of-placebo-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/the-true-cause-of-placebo-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"The True Cause of Placebo Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Placebo effects are real, by definition. Placebo effects are improvements in the condition of a patient ranging from very weak effects that make the patient feel better, to cures. What is their cause? Is it the mind of the patient? No.<\/p>\n

Placebo effects are caused by spirits. Not evil spirits, good spirits. Only some spirits cause placebo effects. Which spirits? Spirits of intention. Only intentionally good spirits.<\/p>\n

Caring<\/h1>\n

Placebo effects are caused by caring, by the spirits of caring. When mom kisses a knee, pain diminishes and fades. Placebo effect. Caring effect. When a nurse administers a medicine, the patient feels better \u2013 some of that feeling comes from the medicine, some from the care. When a doctor tells the patient \u201cwe\u2019ve got it,<\/em>\u201d the patient gains confidence and they feel better. When the patient believes God or Jesus, or Allah, or mother nature will help them, their spirits lift. Placebo effects are caused by a caring community, by positive community spirits \u2013 a powerful force, even in very small amounts. But modern medicine, in its scientific vestments, refuses to study spirits.<\/p>\n

Placebo effects can also come from our internal communities. When our personal spirits rise, we gain confidence and strength. When they fall, we might lose spirit, get worse, even die.<\/p>\n

In medical theory, placebo effects act alone. Chains of cause and effect caused by placebo effects are largely ignored. Placebo effects, caring effects, are often a first cause in a long, complex chain of causes. Caring causes mind effects. Mind effects cause action and change. When the child\u2019s knee is scratched or bruised, it needs attention, but it also needs exercise to heal. The mom\u2019s kiss gives the child confidence to move beyond the pain. Once the child recovers their composure \u2013 sometimes before, mom cleans the wound, possibly applying an antiseptic. These community actions promote safe healing. Then the child takes over, gaining the confidence to examine the wound, to learn how to take over cleaning and monitoring the wound. Their spirits rise, they care for themselves, spirit effects rise.<\/p>\n

The same can happen to any illness, any signs and symptoms, any caring treatment. Caring causes placebo effects. Placebo effects improve the sense of being cared for, improving personal spirits, promoting further actions to improve health, which causes further improvements. Placebo effects are an essential part of health, healing, and cures, when we recognize them for what they are.<\/p>\n

Caring Effects<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many medical practitioners, administrators, and theorists speak of \u201ccare and cure<\/em>\u201d as two main aspects of medicine. Healing occurs in the patient, no doctor or nurse can heal a patient.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Care and cure is a poorly defined concept, because cure is undefined medically for most diseases<\/a>. For the most part, care and cure consists of treatments by a nurse (labelled\u00a0care<\/em>), and treatments by a doctor (labelled\u00a0cure<\/em>), with little attention to actual cures. The concept was expanded by Lydia Hall, to the Three C\u2019s: Care, Cure, and Core, although this expansion is often ignored. Core, added by Hall, partially addresses the patient view, the patient’s spirits of caring, but is still a limited medical view, excluding healing processes. Hall\u2019s model, CARE is the sole function of nurses, ignores all cases where medical attention is not required. Most times, the patient heals themselves. When we look at care and cure of all illnesses, not just those treated by medical professionals, we see clearly.<\/p>\n

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Placebo effects are caring effects. Medical doctors and systems need to take credit for their techniques and medicines for billing purposes. They intentionally, see the work of nurses \u2013 caring \u2013 as less important, and the consequences of community and personal caring as placebo effects. When we don\u2019t study the benefits of caring, we don\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n

Most illnesses are easily cured, generally without medical attention. Medical treatment requires a diagnosis of a disease, and most diseases are considered incurable<\/a>. The distinction between care and cure is political, based on the doctor\u2019s status vs the nurse\u2019s role, having little to do with any medical or scientific definition of cure. The labelling of caring effects as placebo effects is a failure to care, increasing our failures to recognize cures, even when they occur.<\/p>\n

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Placebo effect is in the dictionary, illogically defined, but not placebo cure. A placebo effect is defined as a positive effect produced by a treatment that cannot cause the effect. The literature about placebo effects is full of confusion about the distinction between placebos (clearly defined) and placebo effects (nonsensically defined). In simplest terms:<\/p>\n