There was a time when alternative medicine was much more effective at healing. I know, I was involved with alternative medicine when it was very effective.
What happened? Alternative medicine was debunked by the introduction of the placebo effect theory and it has never recovered from it. That hasn't stopped alternative medicine from thriving despite it's ineffectiveness. It's popularity is growing because it has no real competition.
You have two options when it comes to your health, you can use drugs to treat signs and symptoms and suffer the side effects or you can use new age woo woo alternative products that have no ill side effects so naturally there will be a productive alternative medicine industry kicking out cookie cutter doctors left and right.
Back in the day when alternative medicine focused on cures instead of today's treatments they relied on placebo to cure their patients. Alternative medicine was curing diseases conventional medicine claimed where incurable creating quite the contradiction and quite a mess. Society couldn't have two medicines contradicting one another so what was the solution? It was simple, the people in charge of conventional medicine took control over alternative medicine and restructured the medicine to what we know alternative medicine as today. No more cures but more importantly no more contradictions.
Placebo effect propaganda attacks and double and triple blind studies destroyed cures. Early alternative medicine relied on placebo to cure people, however the practitioners where not aware of this fact until it was too late. Cures were doomed.
I was in the alternative medicine industry when cures were common. Instead of adding more and more gimmick products that could not or cannot pass double or triple blind studies I was taking the gimmick placebo products out and focusing on the effect of the placebo not the product.
Instead of being upset about the placebo effect I embraced the effect. This is how I learned that we can control our immune system and its immune responses.
You see, early alternative practitioners consistently involved with cures were actually controlling immune responses in their patients. Less effective practitioners were relying on their patients to control their own immune response.
When an effective practitioner administered a consistent alternative treatment he or she was directing the immune response not the treatment and the placebo was born.
Naturally when you take the effective practitioner out of the testing process the treatment fails every time in double and triple blind studies.
However, cures are not all but lost, they are simply ignored by medicine and science in pursuit of higher profits. You could learn to control your immune response and cure yourself or help others cure themselves with great consistency and you would be completely ignored by medicine and science. There would be no Nobel Prize for you, there would only be disdain for you because there is no money in curing diseases without using any patented products or products period.
That's right, science attacked the placebo and debunked an effective means of healing when they could have embraced it showing that science has it's flaws and as such every scientific theory, hypotheses or claims should be questioned if it does not lead directly to a cure.
When you learn to control your immune system and immune responses I seriously doubt it can be referred to as placebo and consistency cannot be avoided because it is just like riding a bike.