{"id":3209,"date":"2019-08-17T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2019-07-01T20:34:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T20:34:15","slug":"story-placebo-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/17\/3209\/","title":{"rendered":"Placebo III"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The story \u201cPlacebo III\u201d demonstrates how the placebo effect can be actively used to heal a cold, even if the relevant medicine is not currently available and has never been taken by the patient before.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone once told me the following story; \u201cI was\nvisiting my sister. My niece was getting confirmed, and my brother-in-law had a\nterrible cold. He was sneezing, sniffing and coughing, and clearly felt\nterrible. \u2018The homeopathic remedy Schuessler Salt No&nbsp;3 would help,\u2019 said\nmy sister. \u2018But we don\u2019t have any in the house.\u2019 \u2018That doesn\u2019t matter,\u2019 I replied,\nand turned to my brother-in-law. \u2018Say to your body, \u201cDear body, please check\nwhether Schuessler Salt No&nbsp;3 would help, and if it would then respond as if\nyou had taken it.\u201d\u2019 \u2018But he\u2019s never tried it before,\u2019 objected my sister. \u2018That\ndoesn\u2019t matter either,\u2019 I replied, citing as evidence the case of a patient treated\nby some doctor or other. In the meantime, my brother-in-law had stopped\nsneezing and sniffing and looked a little better in general. I cried out, \u2018Great\njob! You must have an incredibly powerful subconscious \u2013 that\u2019s truly impressive!\nBrilliant! What a feat of the subconscious \u2013 and you managed it so quickly! I\nthink Schuessler Salt No&nbsp;3 has done you a lot of good! You\u2019re doing a brilliant\njob&#8230;\u2019 My brother-in-law gave a lopsided grin and looked a little embarrassed,\nbut his symptoms had reduced significantly, and stayed like that all day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story \u201cPlacebo III\u201d demonstrates how the placebo effect can be actively used to heal a cold, even if the relevant medicine is not currently available and has never been taken by the patient before. Someone once told me the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/17\/3209\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3375,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions\/3375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}