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From: Julian Winston
Subject: Re: Placebo effect
At 11:53 AM 3/5/97, will taylor wrote:
>The single study suggesting much higher rates of placebo response - 16-20% >- is a very interesting one from the homeopathic perspective. It was done >on nausea of pregnancy.
Ah! The old 1950's study at Harvard using IPECAC!! Boy! The allopaths trot this one out over and over!
Harry Coulter (in his book on the Clinical trial) points out that in a trial that WAS placebo (two different colored pills, both placebo) the medical students involved in the trial speculated that the REAL medicine was the "red pills" and those taking the red ones had a different effect than the blue pills.
When DR. Elizabeth Wright Hubbard gave her patients a kit for home use (to be used upon her direction) she had THREE placebos in the kit-- labeled CUBANA (hey, that's where the sugar came from!), ESSEL (S.L. Sc Lac), and PLACEBO. The indications for placebo were: CUBANA: Best general constitutional tonic. Give when in doubt. ESSEL: safe relief of mild pain without specific symptoms PLACEBO: for sleeping, nerve relaxer
