Healing Cancer With The Mind

Released on = November 14, 2006, 2:17 am

Press Release Author = From the desk of Dr Magne, author of Cancer Free For Life

Industry = Healthcare

Press Release Summary = Healing Cancer With The Mind
From the desk of Dr Magne, author of Cancer Free For Life


Press Release Body = Healing Cancer With The Mind
From the desk of Dr Magne, author of Cancer Free For Life
The power of your mind over functions of your body is widely acknowledged. Medical
studies that measure the effectiveness of treatment have proved that patients often
improve even when the pill they are taking is only a sugar pill. This is because
they believe that the pill they are taking will heal them. This phenomenon is known
as the placebo effect. In fact, in drug trials, the health improvements in the
placebo group are often as significant as those in the group receiving the actual
drug.
The placebo effect is the measurable, observable, or felt improvement in health not
attributable to treatment. A placebo is a medication or treatment believed by the
administrator of the treatment to have no power. Placebos may be sugar pills or
starch pills. Even "fake" surgery and "fake" psychotherapy are considered placebos.
A medical doctor may have results with a patient on the force of his conviction, and
because the patient places his trust -and his life- in the hands of the medical
profession, he believes that the doctor cured him, when in fact, he cured himself.
No matter what, you're healed through your own intervention and belief. You're the
one who controls your entire body through the power of your mind, and if you're
determined not to be cured, no surgery, no drug or placebo will heal you.
Why an inert substance, or a fake surgery or therapy, would be effective in healing
is not known. Some believe the placebo effect is psychological, due to a belief in
the treatment or to a subjective feeling of improvement. Your beliefs and hopes
about a treatment, combined with your suggestibility, may have a significant
biochemical effect. Your sensory experience and your thoughts affect your body\'s
neurochemical system, which affects and is affected by your hormonal and immune
systems. Current knowledge demonstrates that a person\'s hopeful attitude and beliefs
may be very important to their physical well-being and recovery from injury or
illness.
It may be that much of the placebo effect is a matter of mind over behavior. The
changed behavior includes a change in attitude, in what you say about how you feel,
and how you act. It also affects your body chemistry.
Strangely, the placebo effect is not limited to the subjective sensations of
patients; some studies show actual physiological change as a result of sham
treatments. In a study of asthmatics, researchers found that they could produce
dilation of the airways by simply telling people they were inhaling a
bronchiodilator, even when they weren\'t. Fifty-two percent of the colitis patients
treated with placebo in eleven different trials reported feeling better - and fifty
percent of the inflamed intestines actually looked better when assessed with a
sigmoidoscope.
Spontaneous healing and spontaneous remission of cancer cannot explain all the
healing or improvement that takes place because of placebos. There are many FREE
articles and case studies on http://alternative-health-ebooks.com
What is the explanation for the placebo effect? Some think it is the touching, the
caring, the attention, and other interpersonal communication that are part of the
controlled study process (or the therapeutic setting), along with the hopefulness
and encouragement provided by the experimenter/healer, affect the mood of the
subject, which in turn triggers physical changes such as release of endorphins. The
process reduces stress by providing hope or reducing uncertainty about what
treatment to take or what the outcome will be. The reduction in stress prevents or
slows down further harmful physical changes from occurring.
The truth is that the placebo effect is huge - anywhere between 35 and 75 percent of
patients benefit from taking a dummy pill in studies of new drugs - so huge, in
fact, that it should probably be put to conscious use in clinical practice, even if
we do not entirely understand how it works.
The inconvenient evidence keeps trickling in that if placebos are lies, they can
also be, \"lies that heal.\" In an influential article first published in 1955, the
Harvard researcher Henry Beecher concluded that between 30 and 40 percent of any
treated group would respond to a placebo. Studies since then have shown placebos
working for certain conditions - pain, depression, some heart ailments, gastric
ulcers and other stomach complaints - in closer to fifty or sixty percent of
subjects, sometimes more. Indeed, it\'s not unheard of for placebo effects to exceed
those attributed to the active drug.
To learn more on techniques to naturally heal yourself of cancer and remain Cancer
Free For Life, get your downloadable ebook version on
http://cancer-free-for-life.com



Web Site = http://cancer-free-for-life.com

Contact Details = Dr Laurence Magne
Publisher, Author
Cancer Free For Life
Email : lmagne@yahoo.com
Website : http://cancer-free-for-life.com

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