I came accross a really stupid idea in a doctor's newspaper column a couple of years ago; some people were claiming that if you put a bar of soap, even a little motel bar, under the bottom sheetin your bed in your leg area, it would relieve leg cramps. I had been having them bad, frequently, and we had motel soaps kicking around, so I figured it was a nothin'-to-lose thing.

Now my question is, "can you get a placebo effect from something you don't believe in at all"?. This seems about a likely as rubbing a penny on a wart and burying the penny; but I've had at least 80-90% less cramps, and then usually not all that painful, for a couple of years now.