13 things that do not make sense

Well I thought it was all in the mind. The following paragraph is really interesting. It appears that with a placebo effect, the body actually acts biochemically. So there is an assumption of receiving the right kind of medicine for the ailment and that assumption seems to go all the way down to the cellular level! The mind can affect the body’s biochemistry. In the book, the Mind and the Brain, it is revealed that the mind can fix physical problems in the brain. Now that’s a hall of mirrors if I’ve ever seen one (and I have). So where does the mind end and ‘out there’ begin? Is there a limit to the mind? I haven’t even read the 12 other nonsenses. Looks like a great article.

DON’T try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away.

This is the placebo effect: somehow, sometimes, a whole lot of nothing can be very powerful. Except it’s not quite nothing. When Fabrizio Benedetti of the University of Turin in Italy carried out the above experiment, he added a final twist by adding naloxone, a drug that blocks the effects of morphine, to the saline. The shocking result? The pain-relieving power of saline solution disappeared.

Thanks, Cliff, from Reality Carnival for this link