I gave a card to a colleague who is travelling abroad with some Placebo pilules in a plastic pocket with the best of pilule advice. I got this reply this morning:
"Thank you so much for your good wishes and just for thinking of me. I have packed the pilules and know that when I take them I will be in a different space! I note you have enough to really make a difference!!! Thank you for sharing."
Mary (Brisbane)
I was only thinking of you yesterday, stimulated by the bottle of placebo’s sitting on my desk. Yes, I take three a day and they are working !! Or at least something is. Maybe it was our talk. Haven’t fallen through a trapdoor since.
(Name Withheld by Request) Brisbane
I had this great thing happen just after I got back after new year. I wasn’t offered a further contract at the college and so had to leave on the 18th January. I was so upset and it brought up all insecurities like not good enough or I have failed again . . . and I was in this flat in the city with no money coming in!
I got home in tears and had got off the phone from a friend after bewailing my fate ( gremlins going nuts inside) and I picked up the Placebo…I said to myself, “This is stupid, I cannot and will not go down again, I have to succeed” as I popped a pill.
You have no idea, well of course you have, but I suddenly I went into a total calm state and lay on the sofa and fell into a deep sleep. I woke renewed cooked a curry and got on with life. Soon after I was offered a new job teaching English to Indian Punjabi young men and women and it’s lovely . . . feel like I’m in India!
So I cannot tell you how incredible the peace and the sleep that descended on me was . . . incredible. I have told my all my friends that I can vouch for Placebo efficacy!I am going to be a great success!
Love to you Jane xxxxxx
Wow!!! Universal Placebo. Just what I always wanted. I have taken them all at once since I believe that more is more. I am now sane, balanced, brilliant, beautiful and 10kg lighter (in this last instance though, less is more) and the sun again shines out of my unowot.
Evelyn, Sydney
Yes! We are offering placebos for sale to the general public for the first time.
Yes! Real serious, really light-hearted.
Statistically it will always work for some.
Nothing works better.
Yes. Look at this.
Suck it and see.
No known side effects as there are no active ingredients.
Only good ones.
100% sucrose (sugar)
Faith, hope, trust and love
Anything you want it to.
Everything you want it to.
Three pilules on waking and before sleep for at least 10 days.
Take as many as you like – you can’t overdose.
Think positively. The mind and our beliefs are very powerful. Affirm your ability to heal yourself.
Hold the pilules in your hand for at least one minute.
If you support it with right action.
Loss is gain and gain is loss.
Focus on your intention each time you take a dose and note whether that helps performance.
If you want to.
Yes. If you never try, you will never know.
Offer one to your boss.
It may only seem so, but…who cares?
It may only seem so, but…who cares?
Definitely. But you must retain a sense of openness.
And the colours will be brighter.
No worries. Placebo is not a drug.
Yes – remember to double the dose.
Your choice.
Placebo is not a drug.
Placebo complements any other medicines and therapies.
Placebo is not a drug.
Yes, with complete safety.
Bon voyage!
No
You can’t test nothing. However, it may enhance performance.
The placebo effect happens.
Yes yes yeee-eees – give it to me one more time … baby.
Yes, especially effective with a little story.
Cosmic band-aids – Liam calls them ‘angel pills’.
In your kitchen, handbag, briefcase, car, first aid kit, gym bag.
Mindfully.
A minimum of three months if used at the recommended dose.
Depends …
We dispatch within a week of receiving the order. If you can’t see pilules through the hole in the label on the bottle, order immediately.
As fast as a click away – think Placebo, receive Placebo.
My son had difficulty sleeping , and when I felt I had exhausted all efforts (ie: chamomilla, rescue remedy sleep formula and transferral into my bed), I remembered my new placebo pilules and thought I’d give them a try…. I said to my 4 year old ‘I am going to give you a special tablet, and it is going to make you go to sleep’…He happily obliged ( not always the case), and almost instantaneously nodded off to slumberland, and thankfully so did I…… Thank you …I look forward to experimenting with them on many more occasions….many thanks.
Lyndel Miller (Currumbin Valley, Qld)
One for those who can’t start the day without a caffeine hit. 😉
In 2005, global pharmaceutical sales totalled US$602 billion with growth of 7% from the previous year.
At an average annual growth rate of 14% between 1994 and 2003, pharmaceuticals top the OECD manufacturing trade growth stats, ahead of coke, refined petroleum products and nuclear fuel (8%), medical, precision and optical equipment (7.5%), aircraft and spacecraft (7.4%), and motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers (7.3%).
In 2006 the 10 largest pharmaceuticals firms accounted for 46 per cent of global sales.
Ref. Medicines Australia
Want to know where we get the ‘up to 70% success’ claim in our packaging?
"The placebo response, noted as an early or nonpersistent improvement in response to an inactive agent, represents one of the most significant challenges in central nervous system (CNS) drug development. Despite a wealth of documentation, there is no commonly accepted definition of this phenomenon. However, it is agreed that there has been a significant increase in the placebo response in the last 20 years, particularly in clinical trials with antidepressant medications for major depressive disorder (MDD).
Estimates as high as 70% have been reported for CNS clinical trials. (our italics) Such large placebo rates have a significant impact on the cost and speed of drug development.
Since fewer than half of the depressed patients who receive active medications in psychiatric trials show clinically significant improvement, some critics claim that antidepressants are no better than placebo treatment, and their illusory superiority depends on poorly designed studies and biased clinical evaluations. In a set of six identically designed, three-arm, parallel controlled trials submitted to the Food and Drug Administration for an antidepressant drug, Leber reported that antidepressants could not be distinguished from placebo in five of the six studies."
Ref. Richard Entsuah, Phil Vinall: Potential Predictors of Placebo Response: Lessons From a Large Database, Drug Information Journal. Ambler: 2007. Vol. 41, Iss. 3; pg. 315, 16 pgs
