Treatment that shouldn't have an effect

Usage examples of placebo.

But all the recent data shows that ginkgo offers no better protection from the effects of aging than a placebo.

Psalter, in the same character, a Placebo and a Dirige, with a Hymnal and Collectary, for 4 s.

As thou hast heard, assented here right now To my purpose: Placebo, what say ye?

Drug companies routinely compare the effectiveness of their drugs against placebos given to patients with the same disease who had no way to tell the difference between the drug and the placebo.

Even the name of this effect seems to be influenced by scientific materialism, for a placebo, by definition, is a harmless, unmedicated preparation given as a medicine to patients either to humor them or trick them into believing they are taking actual medication.

But the fact that the placebo effect worked on the girl's mind rather than her body did not make it any less real, or less useful.

And, whether it was some kind of placebo effect, spontaneous healing or remission, or something completely outside Jos's medical experience, the fact was that a Silent's presence at or near a patient's side seemed to speed recuperation.

To what degree belief can make a thing real we do not know, but the so-called placebo effect makes a case for it.

The placebo effect of this reputation had indeed preserved many a sadly shattered sailor, and he was much caressed aboard.

It is the only scientific design that defeats the illogical susceptibility of intelligent beings to placebo effects and terminal self-delusion.

The Humans had discovered such chemicals at the root of placebo effects and called them endorphins.

Their exchanges were littered with talk of tax avoidance, of selling between subsidiaries to inflate prices artificially, of packaging placebos as panaceas.