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Myasthenia Gravis Herbal Remedy Scams

Posted Nov 02 2009 10:02pm
Myasthenia Gravis can happen at any age and is very difficult to treat. This makes  MG sufferers and their families prime targets for predatory scammers who look for people with medical problems to exploit for their own gain.

There are two types of scam site to look out for: 

  • The straight scam product
  • The comparison scam site

Let's start with straight product scams. like the ones listed below.  These sites are all for a single product, each of which claims "guaranteed treatment" or "results within days" and list all sorts of herbs, -some of which may be dangerous- as ingredients.

The scam sites have a lot in common: there is no real contact information listed anywhere: No names of people, no phone numbers, no e-mail addresses. The contact information is a mail forwarding service, and/or an online form which you fill out, which gives you no e-mail address and no way to follow up. Every single scam site I have found (over 900!) uses CCNow to process their payments. Make of that what you will. I am just stating the fact.

Here is the list of scam products I have found for Myasthenia Gravis. The product name is linked back to their site. If you click on the company name,  you will be linked back to my article on the particular company selling that product and why it is bad. Please be aware that most of these companies advertise directly on WebMD and other legitimate medical sites. This does not make their products  legitimate. Contrary to what WebMD would like you to believe, they do not verify all of their advertisers, due to a loophole in their advertising policy. 

MG-tab by Oslo Health Solutions (OHS)  -more on OHS, detailing the kind of garbage they put in some of their preparations here   and a little more info on them and the psychology of scamming here.

Gravatin by Berlin Homeo Products

Gravitax  by Botanical Sources

Greveton by Gordon's Herbal Research Center

Megnofax by Healing Plants Ltd

Garvical by Solutions By Nature

Please don't buy any of the above products. They are all scams. None of them are based in the country they claim to be based. All of the addresses are mail forwarding services. If you receive any pills, they will arrive from Pakistan. I have received tons of feedback from readers who tell me this is so.


The other type of scam site is more sneaky.  These are the so-called "philanthropic" sites, the ones which want to "help" you find the "correct" cure for your "problem". These sites will list between two or four herbal treatments (all of which you will find listed above) in varying order, and will make an "independent recommendation" of which one they think is best.  Of course, the catch is that the "independent" evaluator actually owns all of the bogus cures in the first place, so they don't care which one you choose, as long as you choose one. They get the money regardless.

(And they think we are the ones who are sick?)

Here is a list of the scam evaluators, along with the link to my background info on them. 

myastheniagravis-options.com run by The Society for the Promotion of Alternative Health (SPAH)

myastheniagravisproducts.com run by  Herbal Product Reviews

myastheniahelp.org run by Towards Natural Health.  A little more on them here.

I have tried everything I can think to try and get these scams shut down; -and I am still trying, however, they are still operating. In the meantime, I am trying to get the word out as much as possible so that people won't buy these products and be ripped off (I still get e-mails every day from people who have been. Look at the comments on my articles).

Please spread the word that these products are scams. If you belong to a support group or messageboard, please let the other members know about these scam products, so that they are not conned into wasting their time and money.

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