User:Premeditated Chaos/List of remedies considered fraudulent

Modern patent medicines
Some remedies sold today as alternative medicine treatments or dietary supplements may be likened to patent medicines, owing to their outsize advertising claims, direct-to-consumer marketing, and questionable ingredients.


 * 714-X: promoted as a cure for multiple ailments including cancer despite a lack of scientific evidence.
 * Bismacine: promoted as a treatment for Lyme disease, but considered ineffective and even dangerous by the FDA.
 * Cancell: promoted as a treatment for various diseases, including cancer, although it has been found ineffective by the National Cancer Institute.
 * Carctol, a mixture of eight herbs promoted as a cancer treatment but known to be ineffective as such.
 * Enzyte: a herbal nutritional supplement promoted for penis enlargement, despite a lack of scientific evidence that such treatments have any such effect.
 * Gerovital: an anti-aging supplement popularized in the 1950s and banned from the United States by the FDA in 1982.
 * Hoxsey Therapy: developed in the 1920s as a cancer cure, it has been banned in the United States by the FDA since 1960, but is still sold in poorly-regulated online pharmacies.
 * Krebiozen: sold as a cure for cancer, though analysis shows it consists only of the amino acid creatine dissolved in mineral oil and has no therapeutic effect.
 * Miracle Mineral Supplement: purportedly a cure for various diseases, this quack medication is actually chlorine dioxide, an industrial bleach which can cause life-threatening symptoms if ingested.
 * Protandim
 * Seasilver: promoted with the false claim that it could treat 650 diseases, which resulted in the prosecution and fining of the company's owners.
 * Ukrain: