blood-sucking leeches

Blood-sucking leeches at least 
cured disease way back
in the days when
placebo said
please.
By now 
in that line,
there's just double-blind test
in two groups, one controlled by
a sugar-pill guess, while the other
gets drugged.

And some study compares.

Results not neglecting to factor
the power of thoughts and prayers:
if the sick one holds hope, wills
to live, thinks it works, we are

always roped. So surprised how
the mind is a lever, and bodies
just jerks, to respond on string.

So it works. It's funny the faith
that coincidence brings to the fray
on all sides. I say:

Break it down! And trust that
truth will
if you wish,
and look close,
persist beyond clown

down the root of all dopes.