Faith healers

[Sigurd]

You should never underestimate the placebo effect. I have experienced it myself.
I have an aggressive arthritis (fortunately I am still relatively young and I only have it in my toes… still).
When I studied in Australia I had to take pills 3 times a day to “survive”. When I got back home this continued a year. Then it lessened and I barely take any pills today.
I still have bad days where I need to take them.
One such particular day, the aching was bad and I took a pill, so I thought. The effect came soon as it always do and I could finally sit down with a book.
My wife came out of the kitchen and asked why I had just left the pill on the table top; “You know those are dangerous for the kids…”
I had left the pill and had just drunk/drank/drunken a glass of water.
Knowing that the ache will just continue and continue without those pills, I was kind of baffled.
My wife who is studying to become a pharmaceutical chemist told me about the placebo effect and how it miraculously works.
I did believe I took the pill but the evidence lay in my wife’s hand. I was healed by faith.
I haven’t taken a pill since because there has not been a need to (one month and counting).

[edit]: I did vote no by the way... the self proclaimed healers are quacks.
The placebo effect can’t be transmitted; it is only the individual’s own faith that can heal that individual.

[edit2]: english