I tend to focus quite a lot on the effect of the mind on the body as I have experienced many cases where a person’s illness has been triggered by an unexpressed emotion from an emotionally traumatic experience. But can things work the other way round? Can a physical problem ever be the cause
The word placebo is a Latin word meaning, ‘I shall please’. The dictionary meaning of placebo, as we use the term nowadays is ‘an inert substance or procedure which nevertheless has a positive effect’, whereas once it would have been something like, ‘an inert substance which is given to please the patient but which
