Excellent comment, great points, and thanks for sharing the links too @klevn. Very interesting indeed about how placebos often place withing a few points or even better than the pharma meds! If you haven't watched it already, you may find the documentary "Heal" quite interesting. It talks about this and many other aspects of the failures of modern western medicine and natural alternatives including many real life cases proving the power of the mind to heal the body. Link to my post on this amazing documentary below, which also includes links to the documentary itself (which may also be on Netflix, where I originally saw it):

@jasonliberty/the-healing-power-of-belief-and-your-inner-power-to-heal