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- From: wsadjw@rw7.urc.tue.nl (Jan Willem Nienhuys)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Anti-motion sickness wristbands
- Message-ID: <4818@tuegate.tue.nl>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 15:09:10 GMT
- References: <1992Jul15.012428.27716@u.washington.edu>
- Sender: root@tuegate.tue.nl
- Reply-To: wsadjw@urc.tue.nl
- Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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- In article <1992Jul15.012428.27716@u.washington.edu> mpark@u.washington.edu writes:
- >I'm sure you've seen these advertised: elastic wristbands
- >with a little button that presses against a special [ahem]
- >acupuncture point, thereby alleviating motion sickness.
- >
- >Does anybody have the straight dope on this... device?
-
- I have read reports (anecdotal) that ANY gadget fastened to the body in such
- way that you constantly feel it and think about it, has a "placebo" effect.
- IN the report I read it was a physician who taped a piece of paper (folded)
- to his arm. It had a charm written on it.
- Motion sickness seems to have great potential to be cured by placebo effect.
- JWN
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