Placebo

Everyone seems to be sick nowadays.

The Placebo Effect is the phenomenon that one-third of all patients will get better after taking a pill that has no active ingredients whatsoever.

So, using dodgy mathematics, if you take three different sugar pills, you will be cured of anything!

Ahem.

Anyway, my latest placebo is menthol. You can find it in Allen's Butter Menthol, or Ricola's Swiss Drops (or whatever they call it. I don't care, they didn't pay me for this.)

I find it to be effective in getting that dull grey feeling out of your head when you have a cold or what-not.

It might be my imagination though. Maybe if you imagine it too, you'll get the same effect!

(Someday, I'll write about how to use Murphy's Law to your advantage.)