This is silly. The fact that a person knows that the medication or treatment is not real will undermine the placebo effect.
If a person is told by the doctor that they are just being given a placebo and not a "real" pill they can sometimes benefit but it is only their belief that everything prescribed by a doctor is beneficial.
Our minds generate what we believe in. The more we believe the greater the effect.
It is due to energy transference.
You believe in something, your mind visualises that something and science converts the energy of that something into a reality.
The Higgs Boson is the main player but it needs a potentiality, such as a cured condition to work on.
What is not taught in our schools is that as far as creation goes potentialities are a form of energy, they are not inert. Their energy's are released by a belief, and intention.