A PILL FOR EVERY ILL
Most of us are so accustomed to assuming that a drug or injection exists to provide instant relief for almost any kind of pain, that we tend to see a drug solution for just about every problem.
This has led most Americans to severely overestimate the curative power of headache drugs. The cold facts are that, for other than the occasional mild tension headache, most anti-headache drugs are only 70 percent effective in providing relief. And no really dependable drug exists for treating cluster or menstrual migraine headaches.
Furthermore, studies have shown that approximately 33 percent of the benefits ascribed to headache medications are due, not to any pharmaceutical action, but to the placebo effect—to the patient’s own belief in the drug’s ability to heal. When we subtract the healing power of the placebo effect, it is only too apparent that drug therapy has severe limitations of which most people are unaware.
Control your headache with natural therapies. As you are transformed from a passive headache victim to a confident, medically-informed layperson, any tendencies toward helplessness, hopelessness, depression or anxiety should swiftly fade away. You learn that drugs are not the only way to overcome headaches and you become motivated to take an active role in your own recovery.
Research has shows out, through the placebo effect, people with a strongly positive attitude recover 25-33 percent faster from any kind of ailment, disease or dysfunction from a minor headache to major surgery.
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