quack medicine
Fraudulent health remedy
Quack medicine is a fraudulent or unproven remedy promoted with exaggerated claims of effectiveness.
The term evokes traveling salesmen hawking miracle cures from wagons: He made a fortune selling quack medicine to desperate patients.
The quack in question is a charlatan—someone pretending to medical knowledge they don't possess.
- snake oilFraudulent cure-all
- snake oil salesmanFraudulent remedy peddler
- remedyCurative treatment or fix
- homeopathyDiluted-substance alternative medicine
- misinformationFalse data spread unintentionally
miracle cure · miracle cures · folk remedies · scam · pitch · crystal healing · alchemy · financial loss · cure-all · elixir · apothecaries · swindle · buyer beware · pseudoscience · placebo effect · false hope · celebrity endorsements · wellness influencer
- cure-allspanacea, cure-all, nostrum, snake oil, miracle cure
- quackerysnake oil, cure-all, miracle cure, panacea, cure-alls