Placebo effect
A placebo is a dummy treatment, like a sugar pill, made to look like the real one. People sometimes feel better after one, mostly in pain and nausea, but it doesn't heal illness; much of 'getting better on a placebo' is natural recovery. Trials give one to the control group and keep everyone from knowing who got which.
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