Drugs are not always necessary, (but) belief in recovery always is.

Norman Cousins (Anatomy of an Illness)
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The importance of placebo in medicine

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People are self-healing.

As a living being people have a natural ability to change, grow, adapt and the capacity to self-heal. All living creatures have this ability though and some are more capable of this than others. For instance some animals have the capacity to regenerate limbs and even within people we find there is great variation in the capacity to heal different tissues within the body. The liver has significant capacity to regenerate while the brain has almost none.

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