Mind and body
思想与身体
A placebo is a sham medical treatmenta pharmacologically inert sugar pill, perhaps, or apiece of pretend surgery.
安慰疗法是一种虚假性医疗方法在药物上使用糖丸,或者进行一次虚假手术。
Its main scientific use at the moment is in clinical trials as a baseline for comparison withanother treatment.
其主要科学应用在于它可以作为其他疗法对比基准的临床实践性。
But just because the medicine is not real does not mean it doesn t work.
但是不使用真实药物并不代表没有疗效。
That is precisely the point of using it in trials: researchers have known for years thatcomparing treatment against no treatment at all will give a misleading result.
这也恰恰是在实践中使用它们的原因:研究者多年以来已经明白将完全不治疗跟某种治疗法做比较往往会产生误导的结果。
Giving pretend painkillers, for instance, can reduce the amount of pain a patientexperiences.
比如,假的止疼药可以在一定程度上缓解患者的疼痛。
A study carried out in 2002 suggested that fake surgery for arthritis in the knee providessimilar benefits to the real thing.
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