Medical mysteries have not been explained

New Scientist magazine offers a list of mysterious phenomena that so far hard to explain, especially those involving people and diseases.

Placebo effect

Every day for a week, the white robes, the chest band, go to the doctor and give the patient a blood pressure medicine, so that his blood pressure increases or decreases depending on the patient's request. On the eighth day, the doctor gave out a medicine made of powder and sugar only, without any active ingredients.

Until now science has not been able to explain in detail the phenomenon of placebo in medicine.

Patients still drink and blood pressure changes like using real medicine.The therapeutic effect of such a 'placebo' is called a ' placebo effect ' or ' placebo effect ' . In other words, 'placebo' also has healing effects.

This phenomenon is so common that when it comes to the effect of a new drug, it also compares the drug with the active ingredient and the drug that does not contain that substance, but the appearance is identical. With the patient's trust in doctors, the patients themselves do not know what doctors give them and sometimes they also naturally cease to be sick.

It is clear that after a period of time the drug has been effective, psychologically, the patient has 'agreed' with the body to take the medication (now a placebo) in response.

How the mechanism of this 'psychological agreement' is unknown to science. Did they "talk, recommend" to each other?

Knowing that is extremely beneficial. It will be 'advised' to be mentally "cured" by the patient without taking medicine. Because any medicine besides healing is accompanied by a 'side effect', it is sometimes dangerous.

Homeopathy therapy (Homeopathy)

The 'placebo effect' can explain homeopathy, which cannot be explained by 'material' concepts.The patient was treated with very small doses of the drug that caused the symptoms of the disease itself (according to the concept of 'toxic toxicity') . In fact, copper physicians cured patients with extremely thin drug solutions, which can be considered to contain no single drug molecule. But in many cases, homeopathic drugs proved to be very effective in healing.

According to the homeopathic method, it doesn't even take a week for the patient to "take the teacher" like the aforementioned placebo case. One explanation is that the water molecules 'line up' around the drug molecule in a definite order and stay the same after the drug has split.

Homeopathic physicians use these types of structures, called 'memory water' to 'pull the disease' out of the body. But that theory does not fend off criticism, for example, the complexes of water only exist for about billionths of a second (this is what science has proved) so why can it cure the disease! Yet, in London, there is a medical facility called the Royal homeopathic hospital, founded several centuries ago and still has many patients coming for treatment.