Bizarre ‘remedies’ allegedly containing human body parts are being flogged at Britons, this website can reveal.
MailOnline discovered dozens of strange homeopathic products sold by Perensis, an online retailer headquartered in Birmingham.
Not only does it claim to have pills made from brains, hearts, and even wombs, but it also sells pills that supposedly contain the petrified bones of prehistoric reptiles and bleach.
Others even claim to contain telephone radiation collected specifically at Heathrow airport.
All of the treatments listed are advertised as remedies, although descriptions of their purported health benefits are vague.
These are just some of the bizarre homeopathic treatments MailOnline discovered that were being sold by the Perensis company
They cost around £20 for a jar of pills or an oral solution.
Repeated scientific studies have shown that a 200 year old ‘treatment’ is no more effective than a placebo.
Homeopathy works on the logic that ‘like cures like’, so a substance that effectively causes certain symptoms could theoretically be used to treat similar conditions.
For example, a homeopath may advise a hay fever sufferer with itchy and watery eyes to undergo treatment with an onion solution, since the vegetable evokes the same reaction in humans when cut.
But these so-called ‘remedies’ are diluted with so much water that often little or no of the original substance is left.
This dilution is an important part of homeopathy, with proponents paradoxically claiming that the less an ingredient there is, the more potent its supposed therapeutic powers are.
But any mixture also needs to be physically shaken to activate its healing potential, proponents say.
Professor Edzard Ernst, a world-renowned expert in complementary medicine at the University of Exeter, said the examples discovered on this website demonstrated the bizarre and even ‘dangerous’ world of homeopathy.
“Most homeopathic pharmacies offer remedies that seem more than strange to non-homeopaths,” he said.
“They range from pieces of the Berlin Wall to a gonorrhea penis. Some are based on non-materials such as vacuum, sunlight or X-rays.’
He urged consumers to steer clear of companies selling such mixtures and those advising patients to take them.
Professor Ernst added: ‘Some consumers may be alarmed or shocked by such weird or unpleasant possible solutions.
‘I think they should be alarmed by homeopathy in general.
“It’s an ineffective and therefore dangerous therapy, whether the remedy is based on something familiar like arnica or on something repulsive like dog feces.”
None of the products listed as containing body parts of organs explicitly state that they are of human origin.
However, other sections of the Perensis store make it clear that organ treatments are harvested from specific animals such as shark liver or horse testicles.
Other organ-based remedies offered for sale on the website include eye, lung, stomach, liver, pancreas, small intestine, kidney, and gallbladder remedies.
And other products listed on the website include blends made from pathogens, animals and even fossils.
Some treatments on the worrisome website list organs as their ‘active ingredient’ with ‘brian frontal lobe’ as an example
Other organ-based treatments on the website are those made from hearts and pancreas
And others mentioned eye and lung as their active ingredient
Liver and small intestine were also on the homeopathic menu
Other parts of the digestive system on offer are the gallbladder and stomach
Even Womb was on offer, for just £12.49 and with express delivery available
Other organ-based products on the website clearly state which animal they come from, such as these mixtures of shark liver and horse testicles
Some contain coronaviruses and tuberculosis found in cattle, both animal and human versions of herpes, as well as insects that can cause diarrhea.
Mixtures made from snake venom, mongooses, jellyfish and scorpions were also on sale.
Even extinct animals aren’t safe, with Perensis offering to grind up fossils of prehistoric marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs, as well as Ice Age bison, as a form of treatment.
MailOnline approached Perensis for comment.
Remedies containing both human and animal viruses as ingredients are also included on the Perensis website
Mycobacterium Bovis is the bacteria that causes a disease called bovine tuberculosis, a serious respiratory infection that can affect both animals and humans
Rotaviruses, a family of highly contagious pathogens that can cause a highly contagious virus that causes diarrhea, are listed as an ingredient in some products
Fossils of the backbone of ichthyosaurs, a marine reptile that swam in prehistoric oceans in the age of the dinosaurs, are also ground into homeopathic treatments by Perensis
Some treatments also include material harvested from a species of mongoose, a type of mammal found in Africa and Asia that is famous for taking on snakes
Mixtures of snake venom and a dangerous jellyfish species were also offered
Bleach used in hair treatments is just one of the household chemicals used in the Perensis remedies
Homeopathic treatment on the NHS was effectively banned about five years ago after it was declared an ineffective use of taxpayers’ money.
But late last year, this website highlighted how GPs in England have still been prescribing nearly £150,000 worth of homeopathic remedies since 2018 – the first full year after the ruling.
King Charles has also been a fan of homeopathy, with the monarch even trying to get treatments on the NHS by lobbying ministers.