The Healing Capabilities of Touch …. Really !
It seems that the healing touch is more than an old wives tale and scientists have the proof that touch has it's own set of receptors that is directly linked to the brain. This might explain why babies calm down at the touch of their mother/father or pain seems to go away when you get stroked by a loved one. Scientists have found touch receptors that are different from the ones we normally use for the sense of touch. The findings warranted more research into the amazing ability of the human body to take a sense such as touch, coupled with some other physiological abilities to heal itself on it's own without intervention.
These findings makes the use of control groups, placebo groups and the actual test group part of normal testing due to the many factors people exhibit during medical studies. People tend to have more than just the normal reactions when it comes to medication which makes it very difficult to really judge the effectiveness of specific drugs. The placebo effect has long been accepted and factored into the scientific data set due to the differences we may exhibit under different conditions. Touch has it's own mechanism that induces the brain/body to release natural painkillers that eases pain so it's more than meets the eye indeed.