{"id":3996,"date":"2024-06-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2023-03-28T08:39:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T08:39:18","slug":"placebo-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/16\/3996\/","title":{"rendered":"Placebo III"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Someone once told me the following story; \u201cI was visiting my sister. My niece was getting confirmed, and my brother-in-law had a terrible cold. He was sneezing, sniffing and coughing, and clearly felt terrible. \u2018The homeopathic remedy Schuessler Salt No 3 would help,\u2019 said my sister. \u2018But we don\u2019t have any in the house.\u2019 \u2018That doesn\u2019t matter,\u2019 I replied, and turned to my brother-in-law. \u2018Say to your body, \u201cDear body, please check whether Schuessler Salt No 3 would help, and if it would then respond as if you had taken it.\u201d\u2019 \u2018But he\u2019s never tried it before,\u2019 objected my sister. \u2018That doesn\u2019t matter either,\u2019 I replied, citing as evidence the case of a patient treated by some doctor or other. In the meantime, my brother-in-law had stopped sneezing and sniffing and looked a little better in general. I cried out, \u2018Great job! You must have an incredibly powerful subconscious \u2013 that\u2019s truly impressive! Brilliant! What a feat of the subconscious \u2013 and you managed it so quickly! I think Schuessler Salt No 3 has done you a lot of good! You\u2019re doing a brilliant job&#8230;\u2019 My brother-in-law gave a lopsided grin and looked a little embarrassed, but his symptoms had reduced significantly, and stayed like that all day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/schussler-salts-1409044_1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/schussler-salts-1409044_1920-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/schussler-salts-1409044_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/schussler-salts-1409044_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/schussler-salts-1409044_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/schussler-salts-1409044_1920-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/schussler-salts-1409044_1920-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/schussler-salts-1409044_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/de\/photos\/sch%c3%bcssler-salze-biochemie-tabletten-1409044\/ (28.3.2023)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(From: Stefan Hammel: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.stefanhammel.de\/startseite\/buecher-und-e-books\/fremdsprachige-buecher\/\" target=\"_blank\">Handbook of Therapeutic Storytelling. Sories and Metaphors in Psychotherapy, Child and Family Therapy, Medical Treatment, Coaching and Supervision<\/a>, Routledge 2019)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone once told me the following story; \u201cI was visiting my sister. My niece was getting confirmed, and my brother-in-law had a terrible cold. He was sneezing, sniffing and coughing, and clearly felt terrible. \u2018The homeopathic remedy Schuessler Salt No &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/16\/3996\/\">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-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","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=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3998,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/3998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}