I don’t know what “self-heal” means in your comment. Does that include conditions that go away on their own (episode of acute back pain, say)? In which case, wouldn’t it make more sense to call those temporary conditions, rather than conditions which require the intervention of some self-healing mechanism?
The only thing the open-label placebo effect tends to prove, to me, is that the placebo effect is operating at a mind-level much deeper than our rationality efforts can hope to reach.
“Self-heal” just means the condition was not healed by the intervention of the study. For all we know, the patient took some other drug on their own and that cured things.
I don’t know what “self-heal” means in your comment. Does that include conditions that go away on their own (episode of acute back pain, say)? In which case, wouldn’t it make more sense to call those temporary conditions, rather than conditions which require the intervention of some self-healing mechanism?
The only thing the open-label placebo effect tends to prove, to me, is that the placebo effect is operating at a mind-level much deeper than our rationality efforts can hope to reach.
“Self-heal” just means the condition was not healed by the intervention of the study. For all we know, the patient took some other drug on their own and that cured things.