Sure, but you *know* that cough-medicine is as effective as placebo. If you try to improvise your own placebo, you might not get the good stuff. I think cuthbertcross's jargon is the right way to go, though. If a pharmacist is willing just to sell you that, perhaps with a side-order of raised eyebrows, then you're done.
Once you have the choice between the medicine and the correct placebo, then it's a cost issue rather than an efficacy-of-treatment issue.
Of course if you can convince yourself that the placebo used in the literature was a cup of tea and a biscuit, you're even better off.
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Date: 2010-05-11 04:30 pm (UTC)Once you have the choice between the medicine and the correct placebo, then it's a cost issue rather than an efficacy-of-treatment issue.
Of course if you can convince yourself that the placebo used in the literature was a cup of tea and a biscuit, you're even better off.