The issue is distinguishing placebo (defined as a psychosomatic effect) from "natural healing" and I suspect it will be not easy -- in diseases where psychosomatic placebo "can't happen", can natural healing happen?
Pretty sure Ilya suggested the reverse - diseases where natural healing doesn't happen, but the placebo effect is possible.
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