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What is the placebo effect?

Even though they don’t act on the disease, placebos affect how some people feel. This happens in up to 1 of 3 people. A change in a person’s symptoms as a result of getting a placebo is called the placebo effect. Usually the term “placebo effect” speaks to the helpful effects a placebo has in relieving symptoms. This effect usually lasts only a short time. It’s thought to have something to do with the body’s natural chemical ability to briefly relieve pain and certain other symptoms.

https://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatments-and-side-effects/clinical-trials/placebo-effect.html

The placebo effect may in some people (1/3 it says above) relieve symptoms. However, can the placebo effect cure a patient, either temporarily or permanently? If one had a clinical spinal cord drug trial in progress, and patients begin to walk when prior to that they could not walk, can that be due to the placebo effect?