PLACEBO EFFECT

Placebo effect

Placebo means a false effect.It is a critical aspect in providing psychologically relaxation to a patient.For example. If patient complaints that he had severe pain but the health personnel is unable to give the patient a sedative or pain killers due to his disease, Here the health personnel  can try a placebo ,he will administer the patient a 5ml dose of normal saline.This will help the patient to feel that he had got some medicine and he feel relaxed

A medicine that is ineffective but may help to relieve a condition because the patient has faith in its powers.New drugs are tested against placebos in clinical trials

If you are doing nothing on the patient it may make an effect that is placebo effect

A placebo is method of giving any sugar pills or normal saline to a patient that has no physical effect on him  even though they may think that it does.