The placebo effect is understood to be the provision of a curative nature that possesses a certain medical treatment or therapeutic agent without any type of pharmacological effect; In other words, we speak of that group of effects that influence health through a given medical act or other therapeutic treatment. Generally refers to the hypnotism in which the brain falls after an individual has ingested an element with supposed healing power, even if it is not, that is, it does not have said healing power, and yet this mimics the possible pharmacological effects that it would have.
The placebo effect is manifested by the improvement of a patient's symptoms after the ingestion of a specific treatment that is equivalent to a harmless substance; This treatment may be a substance that does not have an effect that is directly related to the treatment or method to correct the symptoms or the disease as such.
Many describe it as a psychological phenomenon since a patient's symptoms can improve consecutively through treatments containing placebo substances, as long as the patient has no notion that he is ingesting a placebo instead of a drug. Which is also made up of the total therapeutic effect, the intake of substances with real therapeutic activities. He is also the author that those methods of unconventional medicine work, which is based on the healing of patients through faith or belief and not because said procedure that was applied is effective for the condition.
Según estudios, la posible explicación fisiológica para este efecto correspondería a la estimulación de una de las áreas del cerebro brindando la mejoría de los síntomas persistentes en el paciente; lo que quiere decir que el mismo paciente logra autoinfluenciar su cerebro y cuerpo gracias a la sensación de ser tratado o con la creencia apoyada en una curación, dando como resultado una parcial o completa recuperación de los síntomas. Finalmente es importante acotar que el efecto placebo no posee la misma eficacia para todos los pacientes y puede variar por enfermedad.
