Placebo Effect

The placebo effect is somewhat a felt improvement in health which dose not include medication or a proper treatment, also fake surgeries and therapies are considered placebos. In 1995 Henry K. Butcher found that 35% of the people recovered using pills with no active ingredients. Other researchers studied 10 of Butcher´s 15 studies and found that 67% of the peoples condition improved without the using a placebo, another study was shown that people who had a cold where given a placebo and they experienced improvements in six days. It was also found that Henry K. Butcher only reported the percentage of conditions that shows improvements of the placebo, not the percentage that deteriorated. After examining 800 studies of the placebo effect, that was published worldwide by Henry, there was no evidence for the alleged placebo effect. The researchers did an experiment using 3 groups of participants: a group with medication, a group with a placebo, and a group with no treatment. The results of the 3 groups where matched 100% of the time. In my opinion of the effectiveness of placebos its kind of weird how the body behaves when received a treatment that doesn't cure the disease, but I think that some placebo work because for example every time I get a headache I put a pillow on my head for 40 minutes and it results that the pain is relieved or slight pain remains.