Saturday, June 5, 2010

Placebo effect in Allergy and Asthma

In Japan, to allergic people to a poisonous ivy an arm with the plant rubbed to them saying that she was innocuous and the other arm with an inoffensive ivy assuring that was poisonous. The 13 patients had sarpullidos in the arm rubbed with the inoffensive plant and only two presented/displayed reactions to the poisonous ivy. Far from to reframe their attitude towards the patient, those in favor of the pro-government medicine find in these results a confirmation on their accusations to the natural or alternative medicine of benefitting from the effect placebo.
Nevertheless, the studies realised with Acupuncture, medicinal Homeopathy and plants, among others, have demonstrated that it is not thus, at least not more than with the pharmacological treatments.

Allergy Asthma

The allergy and the asthma are two of the diseases whose evolution is more tie to the psychological factors that arise with placebo. An experiment with asthmatic children verified that if were made them smell vanilla at the same time as a rough dilatador was administered to them, when retiring the drug vanilla secured the same results to them that the drug in one of each three cases. ( Homemade Facial Mask ) The allergies are a clear example of disease due to etiológicos factors of different type. In the allergy, an antigen produces a reaction of the immune system, that also is altered by the emotions. Both factors influence although we do not know to what extent it does one of them. The same happens, when pupa leaves one to us. The virus causes that it is there, we have all, but the negative emotions debilitate the defenses and make possible the development of the virus. Emotions as stress and the anxiety depress our immune system, like the depression. A recent study of the University of Ohio is developing that the depressed people are exhibited to a greater risk of suffering cardiovascular diseases and, in the case of the men, increases the risk of death by any disease. On the contrary, the confidence in the treatment increases the perspective of treatment. A work of the University of Texas realised a peculiar experiment with patients with inflamed and painful knees. ( Homemade Facial Cleanser ) The doctors anaesthetised to the patients, they realised three small cuts to them and they pretended that they operated. Two years later, those that had been put under a false surgery felt the same lightening of the pain and the swelling that those that really had been operated.

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