[FerociousTimes]

Yeah, you're definitely right; I should have added in the end "among many other factors".

While I admit that n is pretty small indeed and thus doesn't qualify for a proper and rigorous clinical experiment, the reason I mentioned the placebo effect in particular is because of the fact that some symptoms or diseases have some psychosomatic streak to them, if you will, and therefore the role of the placebo effect in these cases becomes more pronounced to research and investigate but if the OP felt way better after the treatment, that's what it all counts like you said.

It was no nitpicking or mischief on my part raising this issue :)