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Placebo Effect in Allergy and Asthma
In Japan, some people allergic to poison ivy are rubbed his arm with the plant, saying it was harmless and the other arm with a harmless ivy sure that was poisonous.
The 13 patients had rashes on his arm rubbed with the plant harmless and only two had reactions to poison ivy venenosa.Lejos to rethink their attitude towards the sick, the medicine-government supporters in these results are a confirmation of their claims to medicine natural or alternative benefit from the placebo effect.
However, studies of acupuncture, homeopathy and herbal remedies, among others, have shown that it is not, at least not more than with drug treatments.
Allergy and asthma are two of the diseases whose development is more related to psychological factors that emerge with the placebo. An experiment with asthmatic children found that when vanilla smell made them while they were given a bronchodilator, to withdraw the drug vanilla getting the same results as the drug in one in three casos.Las
allergies are a clear example of illness due to etiological factors of different types. In allergy, an antigen produces an immune system response, which is also altered by emotions. The two factors influence we do not know to what extent does either. Read the rest of this entry »