The mind helps healing

A new study by scientists at Harvard University, in the US, has found that the way we experience time affects how quickly wounds heal. When someone thinks more time has passed, their wounds heal faster. For the test, the scientists had to “wound” the volunteers. They didn’t want to hurt them, so they used “cupping” to create a slight bruise. Cupping involves putting a special type of warm jar on the skin. As the air inside cools, it creates suction and pulls the skin up. This stretches blood vessels in the skin, damaging them slightly so that a little bit of blood seeps out and marks the skin. The same thing happens when you get a bruise from bumping into something. After the bruise had formed, all the volunteers waited…

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