When medicine was primitive years ago, doctors, not knowing exactly what to prescribe to their patients, often prescribed sugar pills or bottles of colored water with no medicinal value with the assurance that some of their patients would still experience some relief as soon as the so-called medicine was applied. This form of treatment is called "the placebo effect" and it has been noted that 30 to 60 per cent of those persons who receive a placebo, not real medicine but a harmless substitute will experience some relief. Even though the placebo has no proven medical applications in itself, it works because the person taking it expects it to work, believes that they will get better and start thinking in terms of recovery rather than in terms of sickness. There is no reality to a placebo. It…