Posted 31 May 2018
At Intervene Herbal, the following claim is made:
Intervene Herbal has launched the PREMIUM herbal supplement to ensure that all the essential oils and herbs are taken up into your system to be more efficient in removing diseases.We have used nano technology in our research until we were able to formulate the most effective herbal supplement.
The phrase nano technology is a red flag and suggests closer scrutiny of this product.
The label claims the product is composed of essential oils, various tree, Botanical and Citrus Extracts taken from the finest sources. Blended i a Nano Suspension with pure ionic antioxidant water. Coconut Oil, Chrysanthemum Oil, Cedar Wood Oil, Citronella Oil, Cinnamon Oil, Corn Oil, Geranium Oil, Oregano Oil, Neem Oil, Peppermint Oil, Frankincense Oil, Myrrh Oil, Garlic Extracts.
The website claims:
- “The Intervene Herbal supplements are the only products that we have developed and proven with clinical trials”. I cannot find any evidence to confirm this.
- “The substance, using Quantum Angstrom Technology (QAT), takes Herbal supplements right out of the normal format”. This is sheer rubbish and pseudoscience.
- “Pure ionic antioxidant water”. This is sheer rubbish and pseudoscience.
- “Proven Herbal Treatment for the following conditions” which includes diabetes, kidney infection, neuralgic pain, tumours, etc. This alerts one to this being highly unlikely and suggests a scam product. Worse, it claims to be a proven herbal treatment for tumours!
- “SABS Approved”: The SABS do not approve these kinds of products. They will not even assess them. This statement is a complete lie which should warn the user that the other claims could also be lies.
- The product “is a botanical based solution made of botanical extracts which have properties that are anti-fungal, anti bacterial and anti viral” and “Intervene Herbal supplement is a nutritional supplement which kills bacteria and cleanses the body and blood of toxins. Intervene Herbal cleanses, regulates and rejuvenates you while helping to balance your body and optimize your health.” There is no clinical evidence that this mixture of ingredients can ‘kill bacteria’. The claim ‘cleanses the body and blood toxins’ is a claim of pseudoscience products and is not physiologically likely.
Beware this product. Do not waste your time. Find a credible health professional and get appropriate treatment.
Hi Harris,
Curious as to what exactly you base your opinion on? Do you test the products at all?
@Meghan
1. We examine the evidence that the company supplies to support their product/claims
2. We evaluate the claims against reputable complementary medicine databases, e.g., Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database (NMCD)
3. We searched Medline, Embase, PsychInfo, CINAHL, Web of Science, LILACS or AMED and other bibliographic sources e.g, SciFinder (CAPLUS, REGISTRY, CASREACT, CHEMLIST, CHEMCATS) and PubMed (indexed for MEDLINE) for evidence that may support the product and/or ingredients.
If there is no supporting evidence, then on what basis can the company be making their claims on? Belief? Intuition?
Hi Harris
Have you evaluated or spoken to any of the people which are on the website whom have testified to the treatment ?
Regards
@Marcel
I have. What would you regard as good enough evidence to support the claims that can be applicable to all users of the product?
Well ssaid Marcel d Perna There is more than rough evidence that would support the fact that Chemo and Radation do not work. Ask a ten year old child if radiation is good for and you’ll get a good reliable and honest answer yet if that same child studies Alophathic medicine he’s duped into believing that it’s okay. Any formulation of organic indigenous herbs into essential oils would be far better than chemically formulated overpriced drugs with side effects as long as my arm!!! You don’t need any more evidence other than to look at health status of the global population and compair it to the state 50 years ago and know without being a rocket scientist that medical cures are barking up the wrong tree and are the biggest scam in modern history. The cure to every disease lies in nature and any party Pershing that for a positive result should be applauded!!
I’d be comfortable with any natural herbal mixture before any MD’s prescription and would never place my health in the hands of the unscrupulous pharmaceutical industry and the sheeple that support their ideology.
I have more than enough good reason to believe that “Intervene Herbal” is onto something good.
This comment is factually incorrect.
There is no evidence at all that any herbs, singly or in combination, has any benefit or curative functions for people with cancer. On the other hand, there is much evidence that chemotherapy and radiation DO work, but not for everyone and not for every type of cancer. Because they are potent treatment modalities, they also have a high risk of side effects. People with cancer are given the option: use this with x percent you will survive, with a high risk of side effects, or either do nothing or use alternative methods which is certainly a death sentence. This is not in defence of all alopathic treatments, mainstream medicine also has its problems but nothing like that associated with CAMS.
So, there is overwhelming evidence that many women have survived breast cancer due to chemo and radiation therapy. There is zero for herbs and other complimentary medicines. As Terry says, “without being a rocket scientist” – this is self evident.
What does it mean to you if you say ” chemo Do work”? Only 2.1 percent of people receiving chemo still lives after 5 years and 30% of those get secondary cancers that is worse than the first cancer treated. In Australia survival after 5 years is slightly better..2.6%. Im sorry but this means that it does NOT work.
So because your opinion (not fact) states something that should isn’t working I should believe it.
And yeah the SABS has a department called MCC which does test medical and health related products.
So you already proved yourself relying on opninion rather than facts on two counts.
Not saying the product works though. I simply do not know.
@Suzette
You are entitled to your opinion but not your facts. Chemo DOES work, but depends on the type of cancer.
For example, more women are diagnosed with breast cancer than any other cancer, besides skin cancer.
The 5-year survival rate tells you what percent of people live at least 5 years after the cancer is found. Percent means how many out of 100.
Because of chemo, the average 5-year survival rate for women with invasive breast cancer is 90%. The average 10-year survival rate is 83%.
Without chemo, the average 5-year survival rate for women with invasive breast cancer is close to 0%
Read more here: https://www.cancer.net/cancer-types/breast-cancer/statistics
If all those people confirm the use of the product and 50% of those people testify to being cured or even show an improvement in their condition, ..to me that would be good enough evidence. If there is a herbal product out there whereby you can bypass radiation and chemo then we have success in my view
@Marcel
Exactly. So this will require as proper study! There is no other way controlling the information.
Why not give us full feedback of speaking to users and their claims.
Before you buy your Intervene Herbal product, make sure this company is legit and not just a scam . It might be a scam.
I am very concerned about this product and the claims it makes.
I am a qualified Natural Health Practitioner – it gets on my nerves when people make unfounded claims because it puts our whole industry (one on which I rely on for my income) in a bad light.
Quantum something nano something – what is that?
25 essential oils? yet they are all grown on this particular farm organically even (highly unlikely!) and extracted using organic ethanol? (essential oils require steam distillation to be extracted in most cases).
I am concerned that more and more people are taking these essential oils internally (this has the potential to be dangerous), it most certainly will affect the microbiome. Quite possibly people are using this product for extended periods of time.
What of potential drug interactions? No information is available.
Ask yourself the following questions:
– Is this product produced in a GMP facility (preferably cGMP) – the answer is no
– Are there any clinical trials to show this product is effective (or at least not dangerous) – the answer is no
– Are there any studies (even test tube experiments) to show what (if any) effect this product has – the answer is no
– Will it interact with medications? – don’t know
These are some very important questions that anyone (but especially someone with a serious condition like cancer) should be asking about any complimentary treatment they take.
Thank you Harris for your article, I completely agree with you.
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