And if it IS psychosomatic, then what of that? Is curing a condition by something other than the Newtonian chemical model something medicine should abhor?

So much has been written about the placebo effect, and discounting it when it raises its ugly head; but I would think instead it would be of great interest and curiousity as a documented phenomenon that cannot be explained in any standard model except as a curiousity.

After all, aside from the drug companies, if the placebo effect could be understood, wouldn't everyone do well to be able to eliminate the signficant per centage of ailments that are psychos omatic by addressing them as such?


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