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Placebo effect is very real. Just as many people who believe in alternative medicines. An essential oil can not cure you of anything.


Not nearly the same thing. You can't fix these kind of things with a placebo.

For one definite example I know someone who even took a dog after it got a vertebrae out of alignment and wasn't walking right and it fixed the issue.


sure you can.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34051018/

many chronic pain conditions respond well to placebo therapies. Because pain is more centrally mediated than you’d think.




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