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Is lemongrass and all the other hippy-dippy calming tea ingredients bullshit? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I buy these things but I wonder if they are truly pharmacologically-active and not just bullshit. Discuss

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[–] MxM111@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Placebo effect is real.

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not only is it real, but you can still benefit from placebos knowing that they're placebos! VSauce did a pretty cool episode on it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QDCcuCHOIyY

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[–] squiblet@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

That's why double-blinded studies exist.