​How does the Placebo effect work?

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desire? The placebo effect is an observation that sometimes people are just giving sugar pills instead of medicine they are cured by the sugar pills themselves because they think that I am getting the medicine see the body has a natural immune system which can act to cure many diseases very strong immune systems there is a famous doctor who said that the main business of the doctor is to entertain the patient while the body heals itself so make the patient feel you are taken care of, entertain and the body will heal itself so of course this doesn’t apply always even in Vedic tradition there is Ayurveda and there are structural damages, major physiological damages when some medication is required in many cases the body’s living mechanism is there, it works but when the mind is filled with negative emotions oh I am so sick what is going to happen to me I am sick, my sickness is going to worsen then from the mind’s thoughts certain health impeding chemicals are secreted in the brain and those impede recovery, that’s how psychosomatic diseases originate in the mind and manifest in the body so now when somebody is given a particular sugar pill but they are told that they are getting medicines then their mind becomes so then the mental block which is obstructing the body’s healing mechanism that mental block is no longer there and with the body’s healing mechanism that works to heal the patient any other questions