Leech Information Blog — hirudotherapy

They were once used to treat everything from headaches to strangulation, and leeches are still a vital part of surgery. How are they farmed? Six seconds. Perhaps 10. Twelve, if it is cautious or dopey. After that, the jaws will activate, the hundreds of teeth will engage, the leech will begin to eat, and its meal is your blood. Are you wading through a tropical pond in fierce humidity? Have you returned to your guesthouse to find with horror a passenger on your leg? Possibly. But you are equally likely to be in a sterile room of a modern hospital,...

For gynecological diseases, the leeches are placed on the skin, as well as within the vaginal canal. The leeches are placed on the left and right wall of the vagina. Since it is well supplied with blood, the anti-inflammatory substances of the leech saliva easily reach the uterus and the ovaries. This also normalizes the hormonal balance, which in turn rejuvenates the organism and heals diseases which occur on the background of hormonal irregularities. Such diseases can be some types of cervicalgia, bronchial asthma, hypertonia, etc. Leeches are perfect when tackling chronic inflammations of the uterus and the female reproductive...

          The leech is an aquatic worm with a flattened body, tapering end terminating in circular flattened disc, the hinder one being larger of two. It swims with a vertical undulating motion and moves, when out of water by means of these discs or suckers, flattening itself first by one and then by other and alternately stretching out and contracting its body. The mouth is placed in the centre of the anterior disc and furnished with 3 cartilaginous lens shaped jaws. These jaws are lined at their edges with fine sharp teeth and meet so as...

     Holding your leeches only in a small fish tank or aquarium and using the special leech forceps carefully, so as not to hurt or injure them them,       To test the leeches' capacity and capabilities of performing leech therapy, check the following vital signs:       1. Pesence of a pronounced reflex contraction, i.e, when you touch the body, the leech becomes short, thick, firm and dense;      2) The should have a strong desire to crawl out of the vessel;      3) They should exert high level of activity: if the you lower your hand into the vessel, leechs immediately...