Claims
What they actually said.
224 specific claims made for the interventions — each tagged by endpoint type and
whether it was refuted, replicated, or never tested. The archive's record of the promises.
La vita sobria (Cornaro's sober diet)
The sober diet cured the grave illnesses of Cornaro's fortieth year and restored him to health and vigour.
La vita sobria (Cornaro's sober diet)
Strict moderation in food is a universally applicable 'divine medicine' that conserves the body and lengthens every life, not only Cornaro's.
La vita sobria (Cornaro's sober diet)
A fixed, spare daily diet (the sober life) wards off disease and prolongs life into vigorous old age, as in Cornaro's own long life.
The Stroking Cure
Stroking the affected part of the body with bare hands, without medicine, instrument, or ceremony, cures the king's evil (scrofula).
The Stroking Cure
Stroking by Greatrakes's hands cures or substantially relieves conditions beyond scrofula, including ague, rheumatism, chronic headache, and other…
The Stroking Cure
Greatrakes's touch works by driving the disease itself ('the morbific matter') through the patient's body and out through an extreme part -- the…
Ward's Pill and Drop
Ward's pill and drop, a single proprietary product line, can cure any human ailment a patient may have.
Joanna Stephens's Medicine for the Stone
Joanna Stephens's medicine was marketed as an infallible cure for the stone, without limitation to any particular type of stone.
Joanna Stephens's Medicine for the Stone
A parliamentary committee's examination of four stone-sufferers, conducted by a panel of 22 doctors, politicians, and scientists before and after…
Turlington's Balsam of Life
Turlington's patented Balsam of Life cures the stone, gravel, colic, and inward weakness.
Turlington's Balsam of Life
The 1750 testimonial pamphlet widens the balsam's promise well beyond the four conditions named in the patent, framing it as a restorer of decayed…
Ward's Pill and Drop
Ward held that dropsy stood first among the diseases over which his medicine was always certain of triumphing; his patient Henry Fielding recorded…
Turlington's Balsam of Life
A colonial newspaper advertisement for the balsam sold under Turlington's patent claims it has 'true merit, of universal experience, utility and…
Ward's Pill and Drop
Advertising for the medicine sold under Ward's name claims the White Drop does 'great service' against King's Evil (scrofula), leprosy, and St…
Animal magnetism (mesmerism)
Treatment around the magnetized baquet apparatus, under the guidance of a trained operator, will cure or substantially relieve a broad range of…
Animal magnetism (mesmerism)
There exists a universal physical fluid, analogous to gravity or electricity, that pervades all living bodies; illness is a blockage of this fluid's…
Egyptian physical regeneration and the Wine of Egypt
A few drops of the 'Wine of Egypt', taken at the prescribed phase of the moon, rejuvenate the body and restore lost youth.
Celestial Bed and Temple of Health
James Graham's Grand State Celestial Bed, hired by the night at his Temple of Hymen at Schomberg House on Pall Mall from June 1781, used insulated…
Celestial Bed and Temple of Health
Graham's branded preparations (the Wikipedia biography records the two principal advertised names as Electrical Aether and Nervous Aetherial Balsam)…
Animal magnetism (mesmerism)
The mesmeric procedure, including the baquet sessions and the intimate hand-pass treatment by the operator, is safe and presents no significant…
Egyptian physical regeneration and the Wine of Egypt
Cagliostro's Egyptian arcana confer a span of life far beyond the natural one, approaching the 'beginning of immortality'.
Celestial Bed and Temple of Health
The Temple of Health and Temple of Hymen enterprise did not survive its first four London years: James Graham was reported bankrupt by 1782 in the…
Egyptian physical regeneration and the Wine of Egypt
Cagliostro's forty-day 'physical regeneration' retreat restores the body to the purity and vigour of youth and renews the adept for a further span…
Magnetic somnambulism (artificial somnambulism)
Magnetizing a patient by passes of the hands and directed will induces a distinct sleep-like lucid state (artificial or magnetic somnambulism),…
Magnetic somnambulism (artificial somnambulism)
Animal magnetism, applied through the induction of magnetic somnambulism, cures disease in the patient.
Magnetic somnambulism (artificial somnambulism)
In magnetic somnambulism the entranced subject acquires a lucid faculty to perceive and diagnose disease, in themselves and in others, and to…
Perkins Metallic Tractors
The Perkins Metallic Tractors, drawn across the skin over an affected body part for approximately twenty minutes, relieve rheumatism, gout,…
Homeopathy (Hahnemann's system of medicine)
A drug that produces a particular set of symptoms in a healthy person is the remedy that will cure a disease presenting with similar symptoms…
Cordial Balm of Gilead
The Cordial Balm of Gilead is a unique medicine of the choicest balsams, the sole invention of Dr Solomon, prepared by a long and laborious secret…
Macrobiotics (Hufeland's art of prolonging life)
An advanced old age is attainable through abstemious macrobiotic living, as illustrated by the long life attributed to the spare daily diet of the…
Macrobiotics (Hufeland's art of prolonging life)
Retarding the consumption of the vital force through a regimen of moderation in diet, regular sleep, pure air, exercise, and tranquillity of mind…
Macrobiotics (Hufeland's art of prolonging life)
The duration of human life is governed by an innate vital power (Lebenskraft): life is the operation of that power, vital operation consumes it, and…
Perkins Metallic Tractors
Fictitious tractors of wood, carved to resemble the patented Perkins metallic pair, produce the same patient-reported relief as the original…
Cordial Balm of Gilead
The Cordial Balm of Gilead relieves and cures nervous disorders, debility, lowness of spirits, weaknesses, and a long list of further complaints…
Cordial Balm of Gilead
The Cordial Balm of Gilead restores impaired vigour and renews 'impaired and tottering constitutions', bracing and invigorating the nervous system…
Perkins Metallic Tractors
Imagination and expectation can produce not only the relief of symptoms reported by satisfied patients but also the worsening of symptoms in a small…
Brodum's Restorative Nervous Cordial and Botanical Syrup
Brodum's advertising claims his medicines reverse the debility produced by the indiscretions of youth, assuring readers that constitutions ruined by…
Brodum's Restorative Nervous Cordial and Botanical Syrup
Brodum's Restorative Nervous Cordial preserves health into advanced age and wards off decline: by it 'the health of thousands' has been 'preserved…
Brodum's Restorative Nervous Cordial and Botanical Syrup
Brodum's Nervous Cordial restores weakly and debilitated constitutions, bracing the system and giving it 'vigour to the functions of life', and…
Thomsonian Botanic System
Thomson claimed in his own published narrative that during a yellow-fever epidemic at Alstead and Walpole, New Hampshire, in 1805, he attended every…
Homeopathy (Hahnemann's system of medicine)
Homeopathic treatment cures disease through a specific action of the potentized remedy, beyond any placebo effect.
Homeopathy (Hahnemann's system of medicine)
Diluting a medicine in repeated steps with succussion (potentization) increases its curative power, even past the point at which no molecule of the…
Thomsonian Botanic System
Lobelia inflata is harmless even in large quantities and is not a poison, whatever regular physicians claim.
Thomsonian Botanic System
All disease is the effect of one general cause (a loss of the body's natural heat, caused by cold), and may be removed by one general remedy (steam…
St John Long's Corrosive Liniment and Inhalation
In cases of internal disease, creating an external wound and a discharge on the skin carries the malady out of the body, curing or preventing…
Morison's Vegetable Universal Medicine (Hygeian pills)
All disease arises from a single cause, the impurity of the blood, and the Vegetable Universal Medicine cures every disease by purging that impurity…
Morison's Vegetable Universal Medicine (Hygeian pills)
Continued purging with the pills keeps the blood pure and thereby preserves health and prevents disease, the Hygeian route to lasting health and…
Morison's Vegetable Universal Medicine (Hygeian pills)
The pills are harmless in any quantity, so larger and more frequent doses produce a fuller cure without risk.
Swaim's Panacea
Swaim's Panacea cures scrofula (King's evil), mercurial and liver diseases, deep-seated syphilis, and rheumatism, and every disorder arising from a…
Swaim's Panacea
Swaim's Panacea is so mild and harmless that it may safely be given even to a nursing infant.
Swaim's Panacea
Swaim's Panacea is a purely vegetable medicine, made from sarsaparilla and oil of wintergreen, that contains neither mercury nor any other…
St John Long's Corrosive Liniment and Inhalation
The liniment is harmless when applied to healthy skin but produces its wound-raising effect only where it overlies a diseased organ, so that its…
St John Long's Corrosive Liniment and Inhalation
Favourable testimony from Long's other patients, including titled society figures, proves the treatment's safety and efficacy.
Grahamism (the Graham system of diet and hygiene)
Stimulation of the nervous system by 'unnatural' food, drink, tobacco, and sexual activity is itself a cause of disease; a plain diet and total…
Grahamism (the Graham system of diet and hygiene)
Masturbation ('the solitary vice') inflames the nervous system and brain more severely than any other form of sexual activity, producing progressive…
Grahamism (the Graham system of diet and hygiene)
Strict adherence to the Graham system (whole-wheat bread, vegetables, cold water, total abstinence from stimulants, and sexual restraint) preserves…
Grahamism (the Graham system of diet and hygiene)
Bread made from coarse, unbolted whole-wheat flour, eaten as the dietary staple, is more healthful than bread made from refined ('bolted') white…
The cold-water cure (Gräfenberg hydropathy)
The Gräfenberg cold-water cure relieves or cures chronic and acute disease across a wide range of conditions, succeeding where conventional drug…
The cold-water cure (Gräfenberg hydropathy)
Disease is caused by morbid (peccant) matter lodged in the body, and the cold-water cure works by mobilizing that matter and driving it out through…
Gully's Water Cure (Malvern hydropathy)
Disease results from disturbance of the vis medicatrix naturae acting through the body's ganglionic nervous system, whose centre lies in the…
Gully's Water Cure (Malvern hydropathy)
Cold-water applications and copious water-drinking, administered under Gully's personal direction and without orthodox drugs, cure or relieve…
Liebig's Extractum Carnis (LEMCO)
Meat extract contains the essential nitrogenous albuminoids and kreatin that constitute meat's vital nutritive principles; consuming the extract…
The cold-water cure (Gräfenberg hydropathy)
Beyond water applications, recovery at Gräfenberg required a prescribed regimen of movement therapy, air and sun baths, and a spare diet (cold-water…
Brandreth's Vegetable Universal Pills
All disease arises from a single cause, impurity of the blood, and Brandreth's Vegetable Universal Pills cure every complaint by purging that…
Jackson's Psycho Hygienic Method (Our Home on the Hillside water cure)
A strict meatless hygienic diet built around unprocessed whole grain, including Jackson's own invented cereal Granula, was part of the regimen at…
Liebig's Extractum Carnis (LEMCO)
One pound of Liebig's Extract of Meat represents the concentrated nutritive value of 34 pounds of fresh beef; invalids and convalescents can obtain…
Liebig's Extractum Carnis (LEMCO)
Liebig's meat extract, taken as meat tea, is a medicinal food for invalids and the sick, marketed through physicians as a restorative for those too…
Mattei's Electro-Homeopathy (electrohomeopathic remedies)
Disease is cured by 'electricities' -- an undefined electric force contained in secret plant liquids, distinguished from one another only by color…
Mattei's Electro-Homeopathy (electrohomeopathic remedies)
Mattei's Electro-Homeopathic 'electricities' cure disease generally, including diseases the medical profession regards as incurable, where ordinary…
Jackson's Psycho Hygienic Method (Our Home on the Hillside water cure)
Pulmonary consumption (tuberculosis) -- then afflicting tens of thousands of Americans, most never cured by ordinary drug medication -- was curable…
Jackson's Psycho Hygienic Method (Our Home on the Hillside water cure)
Jackson's "Psycho Hygienic" method -- water, diet, and hygiene applied under his personal medical direction, with no medicine ever given -- had…
Brandreth's Vegetable Universal Pills
Disease and premature death are caused by a retained principle of corruption in the body; no one need die of disease, and timely purgation removes…
Kneipp Cure (hydrotherapy, herbalism, and the 'five pillars')
Brief applications of cold water, by provoking a generalized circulatory 'reaction' in the body, treat or prevent an unusually wide, largely…
Wm. Radam's Microbe Killer
The Microbe Killer cures all diseases (the jugs were lettered 'CURES ALL DISEASES'), from consumption and rheumatism to any complaint a doctor has…
Brown-Séquard testicular extract (organotherapy)
The testicular-extract protocol reverses the effects of aging in elderly recipients, restoring functional capacities of younger age and extending…
Brown-Séquard testicular extract (organotherapy)
Subcutaneous injection of aqueous extract from animal testes restores physical strength, mental acuity, and general functional capacity in older men…
Arsenic slimming and complexion nostrums
Arsenic clears and whitens the complexion, removing blemishes and producing fresh, fair skin.
Arsenic slimming and complexion nostrums
Taken in small regular doses, arsenic is safe and produces its benefits without lasting harm.
Arsenic slimming and complexion nostrums
Small regular doses of arsenic stimulate the system, carry off surplus flesh, and produce a slender figure.
Brown-Séquard testicular extract (organotherapy)
The testicular-extract injection protocol is safe; the preparation does not produce significant adverse reactions and the procedure presents no…
Wm. Radam's Microbe Killer
There is but one disease, caused by microbes, and the Microbe Killer cures every illness by destroying the microbes in the body; as Radam put it,…
Wm. Radam's Microbe Killer
The Microbe Killer contains no drugs and is harmless: in Radam's words it 'is pure water, permeated with gases ... in which micro-organisms cannot…
Lahmann's Physiatric Regimen (dietetic blood-dyscrasia cure)
Improper diet produces an abnormal ('dyscrasic') composition of the blood, which in turn produces a corresponding faulty composition of every body…
Mattei's Electro-Homeopathy (electrohomeopathic remedies)
The remedy Mattei named 'Canceroso 5' treats cancer, among bruises, chilblains, hair loss, skin diseases, and varicose veins.
J.B.L. ('Joy, Beauty, Life') Cascade internal bath
Regular use of the J.B.L. Cascade internal bath will infallibly confer 'Joy, Beauty, Life,' being the one safe and sanative method of regaining and…
Spermin-Poehl (Sperminum-Poehl) organotherapy
Spermin acts as a catalytic agent that increases oxidation in the tissues and as a physiological antitoxin that neutralizes 'autointoxication'…
J.B.L. ('Joy, Beauty, Life') Cascade internal bath
There is only one cause of disease, the retention of waste matters in the system (intestinal autointoxication); clearing the colon therefore removes…
Marine plasma (Sérum de Quinton)
An animal's entire blood volume can be replaced with sterilized isotonic seawater without fatal outcome, demonstrating that seawater is…
The Kuhne friction sitz bath and 'New Science of Healing'
Internal disease can be read from the face and body: deposits of foreign matter produce visible swellings and changes ('encumbrances') that reveal…
Lahmann's Physiatric Regimen (dietetic blood-dyscrasia cure)
Systematic exposure of the unclothed body to air and sunlight ('airbath') hardens the body and functions as a means of healing, over and above…
Spermin-Poehl (Sperminum-Poehl) organotherapy
Administration of spermin ('Sperminum-Poehl') restores vital energy and checks senile decline, because the body's spermin diminishes with age and…
Spermin-Poehl (Sperminum-Poehl) organotherapy
Injected Sperminum-Poehl is an effective treatment for senile debility, neurasthenia, convalescent exhaustion, and male sexual weakness, across a…
Lahmann's Physiatric Regimen (dietetic blood-dyscrasia cure)
Conventional tight-fitting clothing impairs circulation and contributes to disease; Lahmann's own loose-weave, all-cotton reform underwear ('Dr.…
Physical Culture (Macfadden's drugless system)
Regular vigorous exercise and a moderate diet improve physical fitness and general health.
Physical Culture (Macfadden's drugless system)
Fasting, together with hydropathy and exercise, cures chronic and acute disease and is a substitute for physicians and drugs ('the fasting cure').
The Kuhne friction sitz bath and 'New Science of Healing'
All disease has a single cause, the accumulation of 'foreign matter' (a self-poisoning of the body), and therefore a single cure: there is a unity…
The Kuhne friction sitz bath and 'New Science of Healing'
The friction sitz bath (Sitzreibebad), in which the bather sits in cold water and gently rubs the external genital region with a cloth for ten to…
Peruna
Half our ills are catarrhal in nature... Pe-ru-na never fails to cure catarrh wherever located -- of the head, nose, throat, lungs, stomach, and…
Fletcherism (thorough mastication)
Prolonged, thorough chewing reduces the quantity of food a person eats.
Marine plasma (Sérum de Quinton)
All animal cells retain a 'marine milieu' identical in mineral composition to primordial seawater because life originated in the sea; therefore…
J.B.L. ('Joy, Beauty, Life') Cascade internal bath
Internal bathing with the J.B.L. Cascade prevents or cures appendicitis and a wide range of other diseases.
Peruna
Peruna, though not a cure-all, is advertised as a preventative against yellow fever.
Marine plasma (Sérum de Quinton)
Subcutaneous or intravenous injections of isotonic seawater ('marine plasma') successfully treated infant enteritis, cholera-type diarrheal illness,…
Peruna
Peruna is not an alcoholic beverage but a legitimate medicine -- Dr. Hartman called the charge that he trafficked in liquor a shock 'beyond all…
Bennett's rejuvenation system (muscular contractions and self-massage)
A daily system of muscular contractions, most of them performed lying in bed, rebuilds the aged body and restores it to a youthful condition, as in…
Soured-milk ('Bulgarian bacillus') longevity therapy
The number of centenarians among Bulgarian peasants is attributable to their consumption of soured milk (yahourth) containing lactic-acid bacteria.
Soured-milk ('Bulgarian bacillus') longevity therapy
The large intestine is a part of the body whose putrefactive bacteria release toxins (autointoxication) that are a principal cause of…
Soured-milk ('Bulgarian bacillus') longevity therapy
Daily consumption of soured milk fermented with lactic-acid bacteria (the 'Bulgarian bacillus') prolongs human life by arresting the putrefaction of…
Biologic living (the Battle Creek Idea)
Adopting 'biologic living' (the Battle Creek Idea): an antitoxic vegetarian diet, bowel regularity and colon hygiene, hydrotherapy, exercise, fresh…
The Hazzard Fasting Cure
Once the system is cleared of accumulated impurity by fasting, the body is restored to its natural health and vigor, so that periodic fasting is the…
The Hazzard Fasting Cure
Fasting cures chronic and organic disease, including conditions that conventional medicine treats as incurable.
The Hazzard Fasting Cure
Disease arises when the blood becomes encumbered with impurities and the body succumbs to auto-intoxication; fasting cures disease by suspending…
Electronic Reactions of Abrams (ERA)
Every individual, organ, and disease has a constant and specific rate of 'electronic vibration,' so that health and disease are expressions of…
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root
Swamp Root is specially recommended for Bright's disease and is on record as promising to cure diabetes.
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root
This great remedy cures all kidney, liver, bladder and uric-acid troubles, and disorders due to weak kidneys, such as catarrh of the bladder,…
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root
Fill a bottle or common glass with urine and let it stand for twenty-four hours; a sediment or settling usually indicates an unhealthy condition of…
Bennett's rejuvenation system (muscular contractions and self-massage)
Properly exercising every muscle and organ is the principal secret of health, strength, elasticity of body, and a long life.
Bennett's rejuvenation system (muscular contractions and self-massage)
Daily facial self-massage and muscular exercise rebuild the muscles beneath the skin, removing wrinkles and sagging and restoring a youthful face.
Immortal Cell Culture (Carrel's Chick-Heart Experiment)
Normal tissues, once isolated from the organism and supplied with the correct nutrient medium, can survive and grow indefinitely — cellular death is…
Holloway's Pills and Ointment
The Hollowayian System—taking Holloway's Pills and applying Holloway's Ointment—cures complaints including bad legs, bad breasts, ulcers, wounds,…
Holloway's Pills and Ointment
Holloway's Pills, by thoroughly cleansing the system and putting the liver and kidneys in functional order, cure a broad range of diseases, and with…
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root
Swamp Root was discovered through scientific research and study by Dr. Kilmer, who graduated with honors and is now actively engaged in the practice…
Fletcherism (thorough mastication)
Mastication restores and preserves youthful strength and endurance into old age, as in Fletcher's own performance in tests of strength at fifty-eight.
Fletcherism (thorough mastication)
Thorough mastication ('Fletcherizing') wards off disease and preserves health, conferring a near-freedom from illness.
Electronic Reactions of Abrams (ERA)
A single drop of a patient's dried blood (or even the patient's handwriting), placed in the Dynamizer and read through changes in the abdominal…
Electronic Reactions of Abrams (ERA)
The Oscilloclast cures disease by broadcasting back at the diseased tissue the same 'electronic vibratory rate' the disease emits, until the patient…
Biologic living (the Battle Creek Idea)
Securing frequent bowel evacuation and a 'non-putrefactive' intestinal flora through a high-residue vegetarian diet, bowel training, and colon…
Brinkley goat-gland transplantation (goat-to-human gonad implant)
Goat-gland transplantation rejuvenates aging men, restoring youthful vitality and energy and reversing the effects of age.
Brinkley goat-gland transplantation (goat-to-human gonad implant)
Surgical implantation of goat gonad tissue restores male sexual function, potency, and fertility in the recipient.
Brinkley goat-gland transplantation (goat-to-human gonad implant)
The goat-gland operation is a safe and effective surgical treatment for impotence and the effects of aging.
Biologic living (the Battle Creek Idea)
The colon's putrefactive bacteria generate toxins that are absorbed into the body (autointoxication, or intestinal toxemia), and this self-poisoning…
Spectro-Chrome
The Spectro-Chrome can treat or cure nearly any disease, without drugs, diagnosis, or surgery, by restoring the body's color-based chemical balance.
Spectro-Chrome
Every chemical element is attuned to specific light frequencies; disease is a disruption of the body's Radio-Active and Radio-Emanative Equilibrium,…
Spectro-Chrome
Specific colors act on specific organs and systems -- for example, orange light stimulates respiration and thyroid function, and magenta light…
Steinach Vasoligation (Steinach Operation)
Obstruction of the vas deferens causes compensatory hypertrophy of the testicular interstitial cells and increases their secretion of rejuvenating…
Steinach Vasoligation (Steinach Operation)
Unilateral vasoligation reverses measurable signs of senescence in men, restoring physical vigor, sexual potency, and mental acuity to levels…
Essiac (herbal cancer tea)
Essiac can treat or cure cancer.
Physical Culture (Macfadden's drugless system)
Macfadden's regimen of fasting, diet, and exercise rejuvenates the body and preserves youthful vigour and long life.
Voronoff testicular xenograft (chimpanzee-to-human)
The xenograft procedure as developed and performed by Voronoff is surgically safe and presents no significant risk of disease transmission, immune…
Voronoff testicular xenograft (chimpanzee-to-human)
Surgical implantation of chimpanzee testicular tissue restores male sexual function, libido, and physical vigor in the recipient through ongoing…
Hoxsey herbal tonic and escharotic paste
The external red paste, applied directly to a tumor, selectively destroys cancerous tissue while sparing healthy skin.
Hoxsey herbal tonic and escharotic paste
The Hoxsey internal tonic and external paste, taken together, cure internal and external cancer without surgery, radiation, or x-rays.
Hoxsey herbal tonic and escharotic paste
The internal tonic stimulates the elimination of toxins that poison the system, correcting the body's abnormal blood chemistry and normalizing cell…
Overbeck's Rejuvenator
Because illness is an imbalance of bodily electricity, the Rejuvenator can treat and relieve almost any complaint, with electrode placements and…
Overbeck's Rejuvenator
Applying the Rejuvenator's currents renews the youth and vitality of the old and young alike, restoring the body to a more youthful state.
Steinach Vasoligation (Steinach Operation)
The Steinach vasoligation is a minor surgical procedure with negligible risk, performed under local anesthesia in under thirty minutes, without…
I-ON-A-CO
Worn around the body and connected to the household current, the I-ON-A-CO creates a magnetic field that magnetizes the iron in the body, increasing…
I-ON-A-CO
The I-ON-A-CO is a 'New Road to Good Health' that restores the user to perfect health and renewed vitality without bathing, dieting, drugging, or…
I-ON-A-CO
By placing the I-ON-A-CO around the neck and turning on the current, the wearer can be rid of any chronic disorder.
Overbeck's Rejuvenator
Life consists of appropriate amounts of electricity stored within and passing between the different parts of the body, so that illness is an…
Radithor
Daily oral consumption of Radithor will cure or substantially relieve more than 150 conditions, including dyspepsia, hypertension, impotence,…
Radithor
Radithor's radium content is at safe 'mild radium therapy' levels; daily consumption presents no significant health risk to the recipient through…
Voronoff testicular xenograft (chimpanzee-to-human)
Recipients of Voronoff's testicular xenograft experience meaningful extension of lifespan as a consequence of restored hormonal and cellular function.
Radithor
Daily Radithor consumption restores energy, vitality, and sexual function in male recipients, particularly those experiencing age-related decline,…
The Brandt Grape Cure
A diet of grapes alone dissolves malignant growths and cures cancer: Brandt wrote, 'The grape is highly antiseptic and a powerful solvent of…
The Brandt Grape Cure
The Grape Cure also demonstrated effectiveness against arthritis, diabetes, gallstones, cataracts, ulcerated stomach, tuberculosis, and syphilis,…
The Brandt Grape Cure
Most diseases originate in the intestine and are caused by poisons from uneliminated waste (auto-intoxication); grapes are 'the most magnetic food,'…
Order-energy raw-food regimen (Bircher-Benner's 'Lebendige Kraft' nutrition)
Living by the dietary 'order' of the regimen, eating high in the energy hierarchy on raw plant food, restores the body's living force (Lebendige…
Order-energy raw-food regimen (Bircher-Benner's 'Lebendige Kraft' nutrition)
Green plants store the sun's energy, and raw, uncooked plant food carries this living solar energy to the body, so that humans are nourished by…
Baker's Cancer Cure (tea and injections)
Norman Baker advertised, by radio and in print, that he had discovered a positive, permanent cure for cancer.
The Hay System (food combining / 'food separation')
Eating concentrated starches and concentrated proteins at separate meals (food separation), while weighting the diet toward base-forming vegetables,…
The Hay System (food combining / 'food separation')
Hay recounted that after sixteen years of largely surgical practice he 'broke down', developing Bright's disease, high blood pressure, and finally a…
Baker's Cancer Cure (tea and injections)
The numbered injections given at Baker's hospitals, alongside the watermelon-seed and corn-silk tea, would cure cancer and other diseases including…
Baker's Cancer Cure (tea and injections)
Baker claimed to possess a secret treatment for cancer that differed from Harry Hoxsey's, and the two men set out their treatment-sharing…
Hauser's "Wonder Foods" diet (Look Younger, Live Longer)
Eye exercises (the Bates method), which Hauser promoted in his own 1932 book on vision, can correct refractive error and eliminate the need for…
DNP (2,4-Dinitrophenol) as a weight-loss drug
Dinitrophenol produces significant, rapid weight loss in obese and overweight patients by substantially increasing the body's basal metabolic rate.
Immortal Cell Culture (Carrel's Chick-Heart Experiment)
Scientific management of human heredity — selecting for biological quality and eliminating the unfit — would maintain the internal environment that…
Immortal Cell Culture (Carrel's Chick-Heart Experiment)
Human aging and death are caused by the progressive degeneration of the internal fluid environment surrounding cells, not by any intrinsic limit in…
The Hay System (food combining / 'food separation')
Most human disease is one underlying condition: an acidotic, self-poisoning (autointoxication) state produced by wrong eating, of which named…
Order-energy raw-food regimen (Bircher-Benner's 'Lebendige Kraft' nutrition)
The nutritive worth of a food is its energetic 'active force', governed by the second principle of thermodynamics, so that foods can be ranked in an…
Hauser's "Wonder Foods" diet (Look Younger, Live Longer)
Hauser argued that a vitamin-rich diet could maintain glandular youth: Vitamin D for thyroid function, Vitamin B for pituitary regulation, and…
Orgone Energy Accumulator
A physically real, undetectable-by-conventional-instrument form of cosmic life energy, which Reich named 'orgone,' pervades the atmosphere;…
Antireticular cytotoxic serum (ACS / ATsS)
Antireticular cytotoxic serum is a broad therapeutic agent that accelerates fracture healing, supports postoperative recovery, and serves as an…
Antireticular cytotoxic serum (ACS / ATsS)
Strengthening the reticular connective tissue with antireticular cytotoxic serum can let people live past one hundred, perhaps as long as one…
Antireticular cytotoxic serum (ACS / ATsS)
Antireticular cytotoxic serum, given in small therapeutic doses, stimulates the reticuloendothelial system and slows the deterioration of the…
Hadacol
Published testimonials credited Hadacol with curing arthritis, cancer, and beriberi.
Hadacol
Hadacol was marketed as a balm for vague, common ailments -- indigestion, insomnia, and irritability -- framed as symptoms of hidden vitamin…
Hauser's "Wonder Foods" diet (Look Younger, Live Longer)
Eating the five 'wonder foods' -- powdered brewers' yeast, powdered skim milk, yoghourt/yogurt, wheat germ, and black treacle/blackstrap molasses --…
Hadacol
Hadacol's marketing and published testimonials touted relief or cure for anemia, arthritis, asthma, cancer, diabetes, epilepsy, gallstones, hay…
Krebiozen Cancer Treatment
Krebiozen produces objective antitumor responses in cancer patients, including measurable tumor reduction and extended survival, as shown by…
Krebiozen Cancer Treatment
Andrew Ivy and the Durovic brothers received financial benefit from Krebiozen's distribution, including per-dose patient charges and, in the case of…
Krebiozen Cancer Treatment
Krebiozen is derived from the blood of Argentinean horses inoculated with Actinomyces bovis, and contains a naturally occurring anti-cancer…
Orgone Energy Accumulator
Sitting in the accumulator is beneficial in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of an open-ended list of diseases and conditions,…
Laetrile (Amygdalin, marketed as "Vitamin B17")
Laetrile is an anticancer drug.
Cellular therapy (Frischzellentherapie)
Injection of fetal sheep cells from a specific organ restores the function and structure of the corresponding aging organ in the recipient through…
Cellular therapy (Frischzellentherapie)
Cellular therapy administered to a recipient of advanced age restores youthful function and reverses the visible and felt effects of biological aging.
Cellular therapy (Frischzellentherapie)
Cellular therapy as administered at Clinique La Prairie is safe; fresh fetal cells do not provoke meaningful immune rejection in human recipients…
Orgone Energy Accumulator
The 'cloudbuster' -- hollow metal pipes connected by cables to a body of water -- can draw excess orgone energy from the atmosphere to relieve…
Cellular therapy (Frischzellentherapie)
Cellular therapy administered to Pope Pius XII in 1954 resolved his chronic gastric crisis and produced clinical improvement attributable to the…
Gerovital H3 (procaine anti-aging therapy)
Gerovital H3 rejuvenates the aging body, restoring energy, mood, appearance, and sexual vigor.
Gerovital H3 (procaine anti-aging therapy)
A course of procaine (Gerovital H3) retards the aging process and prolongs life.
Gerovital H3 (procaine anti-aging therapy)
Gerovital H3 treats the chronic diseases of later life, including arthritic, cardiovascular, and other age-related conditions.
Krebiozen Cancer Treatment
FDA laboratory analysis of Krebiozen samples found the drug to consist of creatine monohydrate dissolved in mineral oil; some samples contained only…
Megadose vitamin C ('orthomolecular' ascorbate therapy)
Regular megadose supplementation with vitamin C (on the order of 1-3 grams per day or more) meaningfully reduces the incidence of the common cold in…
Megadose vitamin C ('orthomolecular' ascorbate therapy)
High-dose ascorbate (10 g/day intravenous, then oral maintenance) prolongs survival in terminal cancer patients roughly four-fold compared to…
Mattei's Electro-Homeopathy (electrohomeopathic remedies)
Electropathy/electro-homeopathy, the modern Indian practice descended from Mattei's system, is a legitimate, competent system of medicine whose…
Megadose vitamin C ('orthomolecular' ascorbate therapy)
Vitamin C combined with the amino acid lysine (and related lipoprotein(a)-binding inhibitors) prevents and can reverse occlusive cardiovascular…
Kevin Trudeau Natural Cures infomercial program (2002-2014)
Biotape, a "space age mylar" adhesive strip, connects the body's "broken circuits" to provide permanent relief from severe pain, including…
Kevin Trudeau Natural Cures infomercial program (2002-2014)
Coral Calcium Supreme provides the same bioavailable calcium as two gallons of milk, absorbs into the body faster than ordinary calcium, and can…
Sirtuin-activating compounds (resveratrol, then NMN)
Resveratrol is 'as close to a miraculous molecule as you can find' — a description Sinclair gave in a 2003 interview with the journal Science,…
Sirtuin-activating compounds (resveratrol, then NMN)
Resveratrol directly activates the sirtuin enzyme SIRT1 (and its yeast homolog Sir2), mimicking the life-extending effects of calorie restriction;…
Kevin Trudeau Natural Cures infomercial program (2002-2014)
There are non-drug, non-surgical natural cures for virtually every disease, and the pharmaceutical industry, the FDA, and the FTC are suppressing…
Kevin Trudeau Natural Cures infomercial program (2002-2014)
Following the Weight Loss Cure protocol (daily injections of human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone produced during pregnancy, alongside a…
Joanna Stephens's Medicine for the Stone
A 2013 professional urological assessment attributes to the alkaline soap in Stephens's recipe the same mechanism modern nephrology confirms for…
Kneipp Cure (hydrotherapy, herbalism, and the 'five pillars')
Generic post-exercise cold-water immersion (not the Kneipp-specific regimen) reduces delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS) at 24, 48, 72, and 96…
DNP (2,4-Dinitrophenol) as a weight-loss drug
DNP is a legitimate bodybuilding and slimming 'fat burner' supplement rather than a banned industrial chemical.
DNP (2,4-Dinitrophenol) as a weight-loss drug
DNP is safe to use for weight loss when customers follow recommended dosing, and reported side effects should be managed by adjusting the dose…
Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS) / chlorine dioxide protocol
Kerri Rivera claimed her chlorine-dioxide ('CD') protocol makes autism 'treatable,' 'avoidable,' and 'curable.'
Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS) / chlorine dioxide protocol
Jim Humble claimed that MMS (chlorine dioxide) can cure up to 95 percent of all diseases caused by pathogens.
Sirtuin-activating compounds (resveratrol, then NMN)
Treating aged mice with NMN, a NAD+ precursor, restores capillary density and blood flow and increases exercise endurance by roughly 56-80%,…
Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS) / chlorine dioxide protocol
Genesis II Church websites claimed MMS could cure, mitigate, treat, prevent, or diagnose COVID-19, including a claim that 14 confirmed European…
Blueprint (Project Blueprint)
At the launch of Project Blueprint (October 2021), Johnson claimed a measured biological age of 36 against a chronological age of 44, and framed the…
Blueprint (Project Blueprint)
Beginning in early 2023, Johnson claimed that exchanging his blood plasma with that of a younger donor (including his then-17-year-old son) would…
Kneipp Cure (hydrotherapy, herbalism, and the 'five pillars')
Across 20 randomised controlled trials of Kneipp hydrotherapy (132 outcome comparisons), some individual conditions show a significant positive…
Tesla BioHealing Biophoton Generators (BioHealer / Tesla MedBed Generator)
The company's canisters generate a concentrated field of 'Biophoton Life Force Energy' -- a natural healing force also produced by living cells…
Tesla BioHealing Biophoton Generators (BioHealer / Tesla MedBed Generator)
Based on trends the company says it has observed with over 20,000 product users, early signs of the devices' efficacy include pain reduction, better…
Tesla BioHealing Biophoton Generators (BioHealer / Tesla MedBed Generator)
Tesla BioHealing's 'Intended Use Chart' and promotional materials list the MedBed Generator and BioHealer as intended for 'Severe Conditions'…
Sirtuin-activating compounds (resveratrol, then NMN)
A supplement called Leap Years, developed by Animal Bioscience (a company David Sinclair co-founded with his brother Nick Sinclair, its CEO), is…
Blueprint (Project Blueprint)
Blueprint markets its daily supplement and food stack (including a 'Longevity Mix' powder, 'essential capsules,' and high-polyphenol olive oil) as…
Blueprint (Project Blueprint)
Johnson has publicized a claim, widely reported in 2024, that he reduced his 'pace of aging' by 31 years relative to an average person.
Therapeutic plasma exchange with intravenous immunoglobulin (TPE-IVIG)
Monthly therapeutic plasma exchange without IVIG produces an average 1.32-year reduction in biological age across a panel of 35 epigenetic clocks…
Therapeutic plasma exchange with intravenous immunoglobulin (TPE-IVIG)
Biweekly therapeutic plasma exchange combined with intravenous immunoglobulin produces an average 2.61-year reduction in biological age as measured…
Therapeutic plasma exchange with intravenous immunoglobulin (TPE-IVIG)
The TPE-IVIG protocol reverses biological aging in healthy adult recipients, producing measurable rejuvenation across multiple molecular domains…
Blueprint (Project Blueprint)
As of Blueprint's January 2026 update, Johnson reports an epigenetic 'speed of aging' score of 0.48, telomere length equivalent to a…