Re: Electromagnetic fields, radiation and a cat

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

Actually, the placebo effect is a very powerful one. 

One issue is that the person "wants to get better." 

The second is that she my have an underlying medical

problem, e.g., allergies of certain chemicals, that

are being interpreted as sensitivity to

electromagnetic fields.



An unfortunately, but compounding problem, is that she

may not have gotten adequate care in the past. 

Physicians dismissed her "senstivities" as

psychosomatic, and to "get over it."  That attitude

will turn anyone off to further treatment.





--- Frank Helk <frank.helk@nis-hanau.de> wrote:

> Hi Folks, 

> 

> O.K. - even while I have really enjoyed the ironic

> posting from HP Dean, I would like to reinvent a

> somewhat more sicentific approach to the matter :-)

> 

> I think the disease of that woman (and much more

> other people in the world) is - despite the fact

> that they are really suffering from it - is of a

> nature that was 

> former called "hysteric" in the 19th century (18xx

> ...) and "renamed" to "psychosomatic" in our

> "modern" medical age.

> 

> Since the disease may show real and significant

> reactions of the body, it is a true evidence of the

> powerful control that the subconscious mind has over

> the 

> body. And besides of that, it's a disease that needs

> treatment - maybe it's to be treated with placebos

> .... imaginary medication against imaginated malicus

> 

> agents.

> 

> Best regards

> 

> 	Frank

> 

> 

>

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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

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